Lexar LEHZX16GBSBNA Review

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Category: Personal Computers
Brand: Lexar
Model: LEHZX16GBSBNA
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Lexar LEHZX16GBSBNA Reviews

Lexar LEHZX16GBSBNA Review by Deacon Boogie (Omaha, NE USA)

There isn't much I can add, really. I bought this to use in my car with the goal of having a USB drive which is as unobtrusive as possible. The USB drive also had to be fast enough to quickly load new MP3s on without taking a whole day to copy. Both goals are achieved in this amazing little flash drive! Writes are very quick and the read speeds are outstanding.

Lexar LEHZX16GBSBNA Review by James Wanserski "Big Johnson" (USA)

Concept is great, however the product did not work. I have 3 machines and it didnt work on any of them. XP, Vista and Win 7. Dont waste your time.

Lexar LEHZX16GBSBNA Review by Les Ferch (Pleasantville, NY)

I bought this drive to use with a tablet TV in the car to play movies for the kids on long road trips. The small size ensures that it won't get knocked out of place and the large capacity holds a lot of DIVX files. The speed is easily good enough for my needs. In my testing, the write speed was slower than claimed, but still as fast or faster than any other flash drives I own. The formatted capacity, as expected, is 29.8 GB.

Here are my performance results using H2testw v1.4:

FAT32 (16K blocks):
Writing speed: 10.4 MByte/s
Reading speed: 21.6 MByte/s

FAT32 (32K blocks):
Writing speed: 10.6 MByte/s
Reading speed: 21.8 MByte/s

exFAT (32K blocks):
Writing speed: 10.6 MByte/s
Reading speed: 21.9 MByte/s

NTFS (4K blocks):
Writing speed: 8.64 MByte/s
Reading speed: 20.5 MByte/s

NTFS (32K blocks):
Writing speed: 10.6 MByte/s
Reading speed: 21.6 MByte/s

As you can see, the file system type does not significantly affect the speed, but the block size (allocation unit size) does have an impact, as expected.

Tests were performed on Windows 7 32 bit on a ThinkPad T61 with anti-virus software disabled. USB ports were first tested with an external hard drive to ensure the system was not a bottleneck (I got over 20 MB/s write speed with a USB hard drive).