CONCLUSION

   The Lexar NM620 clearly arrived as a replacement for the NM610 model (review here) so naturally I was expecting better overall performance, something which it did deliver, although not as much as I was expecting in some tests (more specifically in the IOMeter mixed workload test). Yes, in some benchmarks the NM620 exchanges blows with its predecessor but for the most part it does take the lead with a good performance gap. Of course, this also means that even though the NM620 is a very good mid-end SSD, it’s just not the huge upgrade some may come to expect compared to the NM610 model. Still Lexar does offer a better warranty for it (5 years instead of 3 for the NM610) so the NM620 is the clear winner here.

   20 days after its launch the NM620 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 1TB SSD by Lexar retails for USD119.99 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and for 151.19Euros inside the EU (Amazon.de) a price tag which is very good, especially on the other side of the Atlantic. So better performance than the NM610 and lower price tag in both the states and Europe are more than enough for the NM620 1TB to secure the Golden Award.

PROS

- Very Good Performance (Up To 3300MB/s Read & 3000MB/s Write)
- Endurance (500TBW)
- 5 Years Warranty
- Available Software
- Price (USA)

CONS

- Thermal Throttling (During SNIA Tests)
- Price (EU)