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2TB Lexar NS100 2.5" SATA III TLC Solid State Drive

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Amazon has 2TB Lexar NS100 2.5" SATA III TLC Solid State Drive (LNS100-2TRBNA) on sale for $59.99. Shipping is free.

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Product Features:
  • Marvell 88NV1120 Controller
  • No DRAM Cache
  • TLC NAND Flash
  • Read speeds of up to 550MB/s
  • Write speeds of up to 520MB/s

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Amazon has 2TB Lexar NS100 2.5" SATA III TLC Solid State Drive (LNS100-2TRBNA) on sale for $59.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member booboloo for finding this deal.

Product Features:
  • Marvell 88NV1120 Controller
  • No DRAM Cache
  • TLC NAND Flash
  • Read speeds of up to 550MB/s
  • Write speeds of up to 520MB/s

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ijosef
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If you're upgrading from a spinning drive, definitely. Like booboloo said, the other factors (lack of dram for instance) won't be a huge deal if you're upgrading an old machine with a traditional platter style hard drive.

I've had good luck with Lexar products in the past, although I haven't used this specific drive. I've used other cheap 2.5 SSDs and *knock on wood* they all work as advertised.

While there are nice advantages with the M.2 PCI-E gen 4 SSDs on the market now that you'd use in a new machine, nothing beats the tremendous jump from an old 5400rpm laptop hdd to an SSD. Going from older 2.5 SATA SSDs to the newer M.2 drives is nice don't get me wrong, but it still doesn't compare with the initial HDD --> SSD switch. My opinion, of course.
booboloo
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Should be fine, the ones with dram like the mx500/samsung evo are still too expensive, on an older machine wouldnt be noticable anyways. 2TB just brute forces its way to performance if you don't fill it up as ssds work better with free space.


Near full it still writes at triple digit speeds unzipping hundreds of GB files, I've had qlc 670p's drop down to double digit under the same conditions, so the dram didn't save the 670p.

Full durability test in chinese because far too many budget drive reviews are write 1GB to an empty drive type superficial conclusions.
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Mavman42
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Where's the 4TB drives???

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SplendidDime3561Aug 30, 2023 07:49 AM
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Is this good enough for a boot drive? Need to upgrade an older machine
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Quote from SplendidDime3561 :
Is this good enough for a boot drive? Need to upgrade an older machine
Should be fine, the ones with dram like the mx500/samsung evo are still too expensive, on an older machine wouldnt be noticable anyways. 2TB just brute forces its way to performance if you don't fill it up as ssds work better with free space.


Near full it still writes at triple digit speeds unzipping hundreds of GB files, I've had qlc 670p's drop down to double digit under the same conditions, so the dram didn't save the 670p.

Full durability test in chinese because far too many budget drive reviews are write 1GB to an empty drive type superficial conclusions.
https://www.pceva.com.cn/article/4365-1.html use browser translate
Last edited by booboloo August 30, 2023 at 08:07 AM.
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Aug 30, 2023 04:48 PM
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ijosefAug 30, 2023 04:48 PM
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Quote from SplendidDime3561 :
Is this good enough for a boot drive? Need to upgrade an older machine
If you're upgrading from a spinning drive, definitely. Like booboloo said, the other factors (lack of dram for instance) won't be a huge deal if you're upgrading an old machine with a traditional platter style hard drive.

I've had good luck with Lexar products in the past, although I haven't used this specific drive. I've used other cheap 2.5 SSDs and *knock on wood* they all work as advertised.

While there are nice advantages with the M.2 PCI-E gen 4 SSDs on the market now that you'd use in a new machine, nothing beats the tremendous jump from an old 5400rpm laptop hdd to an SSD. Going from older 2.5 SATA SSDs to the newer M.2 drives is nice don't get me wrong, but it still doesn't compare with the initial HDD --> SSD switch. My opinion, of course.
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Aug 31, 2023 09:37 PM
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Mavman42Aug 31, 2023 09:37 PM
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Where's the 4TB drives???
Sep 01, 2023 01:30 AM
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Buck_FlandersSep 01, 2023 01:30 AM
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How good is this as a drive dedicated for new games?
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RedflyerSep 01, 2023 02:31 AM
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Quote from Mavman42 :
Where's the 4TB drives???
4TB pfffft. Where are the 128TB drives Samsung said they were going to release in 2016?
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AdrianS2363Sep 01, 2023 02:46 AM
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How is this for PS4 pro boot drive?

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diggieSep 01, 2023 02:56 AM
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DeejayMeshSep 01, 2023 07:59 AM
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Quote from AdrianS2363 :
How is this for PS4 pro boot drive?
Will cut load times way down, like in half
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theshopper2022Sep 01, 2023 03:31 PM
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Quote from SplendidDime3561 :
Is this good enough for a boot drive? Need to upgrade an older machine
Depends on what you are coming from. I have quite a few machines and the ones without DRAM, I notice the latency. Things like opening up a document, I notice a split second delay. DRAM drives are just snappier.
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lew1Sep 01, 2023 03:35 PM
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I bought this for $57 on the last sale for my rasp pi PLEX server, and am returning it.

Write speeds were around 40MB/s transferring movies from my NVMe, meaning it took 10x as long as I'd hoped to write my info to this drive.

Edit: I actually bought the NQ100, my mistake!
Last edited by lew1 September 1, 2023 at 08:35 PM.
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BulldogPunchSep 01, 2023 04:48 PM
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Quote from lew1 :
I bought this for $57 on the last sale for my rasp pi PLEX server, and am returning it.

Write speeds were around 40MB/s transferring movies from my NVMe, meaning it took 10x as long as I'd hoped to write my info to this drive.
That's odd. Virtually all the Amazon reviews with CrystalDiskMark benchmarks are showing ~500MB/s sequential both reads and writes. Perhaps it was some sort of SATA bottleneck with the RPi?
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JoelSamuelSep 01, 2023 04:50 PM
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How do people feel about using this as a media storage / project drive for like Davinci/Premier/Photoshop? Primarily for hobbyist video editing, currently using a spinning external harddrive for most of my footage even when editing, would love to have something a little faster for these projects. Would the durability and constant writing make this a poor choice? As projects get moved / overwritten a lot...
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mongorianbeefSep 01, 2023 05:04 PM
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Quote from ijosef :
If you're upgrading from a spinning drive, definitely. Like booboloo said, the other factors (lack of dram for instance) won't be a huge deal if you're upgrading an old machine with a traditional platter style hard drive.

I've had good luck with Lexar products in the past, although I haven't used this specific drive. I've used other cheap 2.5 SSDs and *knock on wood* they all work as advertised.

While there are nice advantages with the M.2 PCI-E gen 4 SSDs on the market now that you'd use in a new machine, nothing beats the tremendous jump from an old 5400rpm laptop hdd to an SSD. Going from older 2.5 SATA SSDs to the newer M.2 drives is nice don't get me wrong, but it still doesn't compare with the initial HDD --> SSD switch. My opinion, of course.
Going from HDD to SSD/nvme is night day difference. It's similar to going from 60hz to 120+. Just can't go back

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lew1Sep 01, 2023 05:56 PM
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Quote from BulldogPunch :
That's odd. Virtually all the Amazon reviews with CrystalDiskMark benchmarks are showing ~500MB/s sequential both reads and writes. Perhaps it was some sort of SATA bottleneck with the RPi?
I was transferring from the NVMe to this drive with Windows on my gaming PC, to then connect the drive full of media to my rasp pi. It seems fast at writing for the first 1-2GB, but I'm using this 2TB storage SSD for movies and TV shows, and typically moving 50GB+ at a time. All the other tests I see on Amazon are just 1GiB tests.

If you're using this for smaller file writes, I'm sure it's great. And once it's written to, the read speeds are great (for SATA III), but I plan to add to it over it time and I just hate the slow write speeds I've experienced for the minimal savings.

Here's my crystal disk mark results [imgur.com]
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