Lexar NM1090 Pro 4 TB

[W1zzard]

The Lexar NM1090 Pro 4TB SSD delivers fast Gen 5 performance and tons of capacity. In our testing, it achieved record-breaking sustained write speeds of over 4.2 GB/s—outpacing the competition. Overall performance is strong, though there are still faster options available.

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[_roman_]

Nice page 3

Nice product. I do not any noticeable improvement in real life scenario with e.g KC3000 2TB. Maybe controller related or a bad choice of DRAM or Flash.

 

[Chaitanya]

Longsys/Lexar certainly have some decent products in their lineup.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Performance/$ not good...

 

[drSeehas]

2 GB of LPDDR4-3200 or 4 GB LPDDR4-3733?

 

[dgianstefani]

2 GB of LPDDR4-3200 or 4 GB LPDDR4-3733?

Fixed.

 

[drSeehas]

Fixed.

Still 2 GB or 4 GB?

 

[Bwaze]

"The large 4 TB capacity variant offers tons of storage..."

What year is it?

 

[dgianstefani]

"The large 4 TB capacity variant offers tons of storage..."

What year is it?

The year where 8 TB is the biggest you can find for M.2 2280, the size of a stick of gum.

Still 2 GB or 4 GB?

Ugh, missed that, it's 4. Thanks.

 

[Bwaze]

So... The same as the last half a decade...

 

[dgianstefani]

So... The same as the last half a decade...

For the price, it's a lot of fast storage, that's the point.

 

[mechtech]

Make a PCIe gen4 version and sell for $330cad and I may consider it...................

Nice to see a 4TB nvme review though!!!

 

[Chrispy_]

Alas, another expensive Gen5 drive that is indistinguishable in applications and real-world usage from the cheap and excellent Gen4 Kioxia G4+ and SN7100.

Throttling under intensive sequential workloads is bad, because the only reason you'd really need Gen5 speeds would be for large sequential workloads and it can't manage those for more than about 30 seconds without cooking itself and dropping to ~4GB/s which is barely above Gen3 speeds. Maybe using the heatspreader that comes with your motherboard might extend that to 60 seconds, but's it's still not great; Most Gen4 drives will continue to run at 7GB/s until their cache is full, and in the case of 4TB TLC models, that's ~1.3TB at 7GB/s.

 

[EsaT]

Nice product. I do not any noticeable improvement in real life scenario with e.g KC3000 2TB. Maybe controller related or a bad choice of DRAM or Flash.

Of course there are improvements:
Can't you see that even in "power saving" mode it draws same amount of power as KC3000 without any power saving.
And without power saving it idles at double power draw to better keep it "pre-warmed".

 

[QUANTUMPHYSICS]

I'm glad to see 4TB SSD declining in price. I really thought we'd be further along by now. Where's the 6, 8 and 10TB SSD?

 

[Rover4444]

Amazing. I'll wait another half decade for drives like this to halve in price though

Make a PCIe gen4 version and sell for $330cad and I may consider it...................

Nice to see a 4TB nvme review though!!!

Uhh, there's the NM790, but it's HMB...

 

[watzupken]

For most people, if I were to do a blind test on a bunch of people, I don't think they can tell whether a computer is using a PCI-E 3, 4 or 5 SSD at all. The high sequential speed is 90% marketing, 10% practical for most users.

 

[Bwaze]

The most hilarious thing about high sequential speeds marketed as a metric that people care about is that it isn’t ever tested in a scenario common in home PCs. No SSD today achieves it’s “rated speed” at queue depth of 1, and most uses at home would not demand reads / writes that are both sequential and in higher queue depth.

It’s like rating a car top speed in free fall. Technically not incorrect, but not really useful.

 

[b1k3rdude]

Nice to see anoe drive crack the 100mb reed mark, and even better have such a large cache that indurance is more than most consumers will need. Thanks W1z.

 

[Kaleid]

Rather than getting speed increases which are seldom noticed I wish we'd get 8TB drives cheaper

 

[Chrispy_]

For most people, if I were to do a blind test on a bunch of people, I don't think they can tell whether a computer is using a PCI-E 3, 4 or 5 SSD at all. The high sequential speed is 90% marketing, 10% practical for most users.

There are several videos I've seen doing exactly this on the web. Even SATA vs Gen4 wasn't obvious to most people.

QD1 performance of the latest and greatest Gen5 drives still doesn't typically saturate a Gen3 connection. If you're running any kind of NVMe drive at all, you're only likely to notice the difference between an old drive and a new drive with a stopwatch. Most people don't actually copy half a terabyte from one SSD to another very often - that's the use-case where faster drives are notably better.

It's another reason I don't have any love for Gen5 drives that throttle. If you need Gen5 to speed up your work, then you probably need it to run at Gen5 speeds for a significant amount of time and with large datasets. Gen5 drives that throttle after 30 seconds are like taking a Tesla Model X to a track day. Amazing but then reverts to limp mode after two laps. Sure, it's fun for setting a benchmark lap time but utterly useless for a one-hour race.

 

[Bwaze]

If you're running any kind of NVMe drive at all, you're only likely to notice the difference between an old drive and a new drive with a stopwatch.

And even that is kind of hard for the things that would really matter - like application, game load times, loading times of large files in media editing etc… Funny thing is, every time this kind of dismissal is posted, there appears a person that throws around anecdotal huge gains from his purchase of latest and greatest drive - impossible claims like “it loads at half the time compared to Gen 4” - for the well documented, compared and benchmarked tests. And there’s a lot of people that spread that kind of “reviewers don’t measure properly, in my PC the difference is night and day!”.

 

[Chrispy_]

And even that is kind of hard for the things that would really matter - like application, game load times, loading times of large files in media editing etc… Funny thing is, every time this kind of dismissal is posted, there appears a person that throws around anecdotal huge gains from his purchase of latest and greatest drive - impossible claims like “it loads at half the time compared to Gen 4” - for the well documented, compared and benchmarked tests. And there’s a lot of people that spread that kind of “reviewers don’t measure properly, in my PC the difference is night and day!”.

I'd be willing to bet that all those anecdotes of "it went twice as fast" are because they changed drive at the same time as doing a clean install of their OS, and they're measuring the difference between a dirty OS install on an almost full drive and a fresh OS install on an empty SSD.

 

[csendesmark]

Cool!
Features, capacity, temperatures and price looks great!
GTA6 coming up next year, this looks good option as a game SSD

 

[Darkholm]

No price cuts which were announced almost a year ago. 4TB and larger M.2 NVMe drives cost the same or with small changes +/- 5%.