Package and Contents

The Drive

The Lexar SL200 uses a plastic casing, which looks very clean and sleek. The mix of dark gray colors with a hint of brown looks very "business," so I can see it going well with leather accessories.


The back of the drive has a textured surface with small dimples.


A single USB-C port lets you connect to the drive. To the right of that is a white LED that serves as an activity indicator. What I love about that LED is that it lights up softly and doesn't blink as abruptly and wildly as similar implementations.

Disassembly

Taking the drive apart, we see that Lexar is using a two-component approach.


The electronics of the SSD consist of a board which handles the USB to SATA translation and a second board that's basically your standard 2.5" SATA SSD.


No further information is available on the Lexar DM918 controller; it looks a bit like a rebranded SMI 2258 design.


The flash chips are rebranded, too. These are definitely 3D TLC NAND, each with a capacity of 256 GB.


The ASMedia ASM235CM controller handles the translation between USB 3.2 Gen2x1 and SATA 6 Gbps.