Setup & Testing
Just like any USB drive all you do is plug the SL660 BLAZE into an open USB port in your computer. If you don’t have a Type-C port available Lexar does provide a Type-C to Type-A adapter cable. Once plugged in Windows will automatically recognize the drive and you’ll be good to go. You’ll notice when you power the drive the RGB section on the one end will light up. It looks pretty good in my option.
On the drive you will find Lexar’s DataShield software.
The drive comes formatted as exFAT and has 953 GB of usable space.
For testing we will be running the SL660 BLAZE against other portable solid state drives we have on hand so you can see the difference between the drives. As a reminder Lexar lists the speeds of this drive as 2000 MB/s read and 1900 MB/s write. First up we have CrystalDiskMark.
As you can see we have sequential read speeds of 2022.04 MB/s and write speeds of 1805.56 MB/s. Here is how the drive compares to other drives we’ve tested.
Next we run the the AJA System test. It tests different types of video formats and gives you throughput results for the drive. Our configuration was 4K RED HD footage, 1 GB test file size, and the 8bit YUV codec.
And those results compared to other drives.
We also run the AS SSD Benchmark and ATTO Disk Benchmark.
