Lexar Professional SL100 Pro 500GB Portable Solid-State Drive – Up to 950MB/S, USB-C, USB 3.1 (LSL100P-500RBNA)

I was really surprised at how small this drive was.I kinda expected something more like a Western Digital - My Passport or something.It's maybe half that size and MUCH lighter. I'll upload a picture as soon as I can.I wanted to wait to write this review until I had heated it up and really worked it a bit.I started by uploading about 380Gigs of media data onto it from a USB 1.0 port (which took about 16 hours) and then using it as a working reference library for a week.It got a little warm at one point, not hot but warm so that could be an issue if you decide to use it as a working drive.Right now I am transferring all of that data onto another USB3 drive using USB3.0 ports, at the moment (just started) the PC is telling me this will take 8 hours and 30 minutes at about 5-6 MB/s.[UPDATE] right after submitting this review the speed jumped up to about 100MB/s I guess it knew i was talking bad about it ;)[UPDATE]Not to shabby. I guess it can only go as fast as the bus it's connected to.Still after all the abuse I've been giving it the drive seems to be holding up pretty well.I plan to use it as a transfer and storage drive, not as a working drive, so I should get a decent life out of it.Again, very small for it's size. Reasonably fast as well.I can't speak for it's physical durabilty because I've been reasonably gentle on it.It did get bounced around in my rolling PC bag while I drug it across the sidewalks of downtown Chicago but still, it was in a nice little pocket.It feels like it could break pretty easily if you dropped it though. Which I don't plan on doing any time soon.For the price and the size right now I'm not sure I'd call it "Worth It". USB3 is the current standard on most PC's and Laptops and your drive is going to be capped at that speed. At that speed there are much better deals available with massive size differences 4TBs for less than the cost of this 500GB.But the new 3.1, 3.2 and eventually 4.0 standards might make this a super viable little drive. And by the time they become common on your PC's and laptops the prices on these lil guys should have dropped significantly.For now the only real benefit I see is the incredibly small size. This can fit in your pocket with ease and plug into any standard or USBC port.For now THAT is the only real benefit I see.Still, its a csuper cool little drive and it gets me excited for whats coming.

It only works on my new Laptop, not such a good buy!

Overall, happy with this drive. Got it on sale, so bonus!Faster than my several year old Samsung T5. Seeing read and write speeds in the 650-680Mbps range. Lower than theoretical, but might be due to filesystem format (Apple's APFS Encrypted). Same size as the Samsung T5.Only complaint is that the cables ARE short, but I do have longer cables, so, can use those if/when the need arises.

As a professional photographer I take a large number of photos. When I travel on vacation it’s the same. I still take a large number of photos. It’s not unusual to return from a photo shoot or even a vacation cruise with five or six thousand images.Obviously, keeping these number of files (RAW images for the most part) on CF or SD cards alone is risky. Cards do fail and they are small enough to become lost. Instead the images are backed up while I am traveling to an SSD. (In reality, the images on the SSD are organized in descriptive file folders and they become the primary images. The cards become the backups.)Based on years of experience, the two brands of cards that I trust the most are Sandisk and Lexar. Therefore, it would make sense that my SSDs would also be manufactured by those same two companies. Ironically, up to now this hasn’t been the case. I have been using a Samsung T5 and a WD My Passport SSDs. I have been completely satisfied with both brands performance. However, with the addition of the Lexar Professional SL100 Pro Portable Solid-State Drive, things are changing.The Lexar Professional SL100 Pro Portable Solid-State Drive that I received is a 500 GB. This matches the capacity of the T5 and My Passport SSDs. It also about the same physical size (cigarette pack size.) It comes with two cables. Both have USB Type-C connectors on one side to match the connectors on the SSD. One cable has a Type-A connector on the other side, the other cable has a Type-C.I did not run any performance tests on the Lexar Professional SL100. I am aware that some other reviewers have felt that the drive tended to be on the slow side in terms of performance. However, given the specific purpose that I have for this SSD, capacity and reliability are the key criteria. And here, so far, there are absolutely no complaints. Just as their Lexar CF and SD counterparts have shown, the SL100 has shown itself in both categories.

Do not deal with this productNo good