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Jon Jacobi
PCWorld
“Our first encounter with a Lexar NMVe SSD reveals a fetching combination of price and performance.”
Critical Assessment
What Critics Praise
- Excellent all‑around performance
- Very good power efficiency
- Single‑sided M.2 2280 design
- Reasonable pricing especially at 4 TB
- Super affordable
- Solid endurance
Points of Contention
- Uses YMTC flash with political IP concerns
- Very slow random writes
- Limited cache
- No heat sink
Professional Reviews
3 reviews from 3 critics80
Shane Downing
Tom's Hardware
“The Lexar NM790 is an all‑around excellent PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD that would work great in a laptop, desktop, or PS5.”
80
Tony Hoffman
PCMag
“The Lexar NM790 internal SSD provides good value, notching above-par benchmark results and coming in at capacities up to 4TB, making it worth considering for a cost-effective storage upgrade.”
