Lexar NM790 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280

Lexar NM790 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280

Lexar
82 Overall Score
vs
SanDisk 4TB SSD PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280

SanDisk 4TB SSD PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280

SanDisk
92 Overall Score

Scores

Console
Lexar
75
SanDisk
93
Gaming
Lexar
78
SanDisk
93
Workstation
Lexar
75
SanDisk
92
Budget
Lexar
92
SanDisk
79
Laptop
Lexar
85
SanDisk
80
Portable
Lexar
21
SanDisk
25

Specifications

Lexar NM790SanDisk 4TB SSD
Drive
Capacity
1,000
4,000
Form FactorM.2 2280M.2 2280
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 4.0
ProtocolNVMeNVMe
PCIe Generation44
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
7,400
7,300
Sequential Write (MB/s)
6,500
6,600
Random Read (IOPS)
1,000,000
1,200,000
Random Write (IOPS)
900,000
1,100,000
Hardware
NANDTLCTLC
DRAM Cache✗✓★
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)
1,000
2,400
MTBF (hours)
1,500,000
1,750,000
Warranty (years)5★3
Features
Heatsink✗✓★
Hardware Encryption✗—

Pros & Cons

Lexar NM790 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280

  • Strong social proof (95th percentile)95th %ile
  • Strong endurance (94th percentile)94th %ile
  • Strong random (93rd percentile)93rd %ile
  • Strong speed (89th percentile)89th %ile

SanDisk 4TB SSD PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280

  • Strong random (95th percentile)95th %ile
  • Strong social proof (95th percentile)95th %ile
  • Strong feature (94th percentile)94th %ile
  • Strong capacity (93rd percentile)93rd %ile
  • Below average affordability (9th percentile)9th %ile

Verdict

★ Winner: SanDisk 4TB SSD

Scores 92 overall, wins 4 of 6 usage categories and 8 of 17 specs.

Lexar NM790 Better at:

BudgetLaptop

SanDisk 4TB SSD Better at:

GamingConsolePortableWorkstation