Performance
The performance has been measured using popular storage benchmarks that are available for free so that you can download them and compare results on your own hardware.
For the tests I was using Intel USB 3.0 ports on the Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force motherboard. I had no problems with the performance and all of the results were repeatable, just in case anyone was wondering if the results below were always the same or just matter of luck. No, really this flash drive runs like you can see on the screenshots with the test results.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
We can quickly turn back to the specification page to find out that 32GB Lexar M10 is supposed to run up to 100MB/s read and 30MB/s write bandwidth. We were able to achieve over 180MB/s read and about 35MB/s write bandwidth. These results are simply great, especially if you were counting on the declared by Lexar speed. The difference is quite impressive.
CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64
CrystalDiskMark is usually showing lower transfer speed than ATTO but in this case it is even slightly better in writes. The random transfers could be higher as 5-6MB/s is not anything special nowadays. It is still much more than the average hard disk drive can make.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities
Anvil’s tests are showing a similar situation with a much higher than declared read bandwidth while the writes are closer to the main specification. These results are still slightly better than in CrystalDiskMark, maybe not much better but it still counts.
Flash drives base mainly on the sequential transfers so we should not care much about random write or read bandwidth. It can be useful in some situations but it does not really matter for most of the time. Write bandwidth also is not really important as on new computers write is being cached so we cannot see any slowdowns.
The most important is sequential read bandwidth and that is great reaching 180% of the declared value!
