the moment it becomes more than 50% full, the speeds drop drastically. copying files drops from 300 MB/s to like 30 or fewer, games that load almost instantly on an emptier drive (like Hades) suddenly start taking 20 or 30 seconds, the entire OS randomly locks up when launching some applications. I’ll be finally replacing it in a few weeks and I cannot wait to downgrade this piece of crap to a portable drive.
having dealed with their NM610PRO, I’m not gonna buy another Lexar product ever again.
What issues did you have?
the moment it becomes more than 50% full, the speeds drop drastically. copying files drops from 300 MB/s to like 30 or fewer, games that load almost instantly on an emptier drive (like Hades) suddenly start taking 20 or 30 seconds, the entire OS randomly locks up when launching some applications. I’ll be finally replacing it in a few weeks and I cannot wait to downgrade this piece of crap to a portable drive.
It’s a QLC drive, so you get slow write speeds and poor write endurance. They should be avoided for as long as TLC drives are available.
Just a rule of thumb for the future, don’t use a DRAMless QLC SSD as an OS drive.
Or even just a QLC SSD.