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Review: Lexar ADVERTISEMENT
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Lexar is a name that shouldn’t be strange
to Myce members, as in the past I have reviewed some of their fastest USB3
flash drives, such as the P10
and the Triton,
as well as more affordable flash drives such as the S23
JumpDrive. Lexar this time has provided me with their S33 drive and in
theory this drive should have the exact same performance as the S23 JumpDrive.
But the thing that differentiates this is its retractable swivel mechanism. You
can find more info about that in this review, but you can also read all about
it from the official site here,
and if you want to learn more about Lexar you can find all the info here.
So let's start this review for the Lexar
S33 JumpDrive by taking a look at the packaging and contents.
A first look at the Lexar S33 JumpDrive and its specifications
The package of the Lexar S33 JumpDrive is
very similar to the S23
JumpDrive that I had reviewed back in June.
The
front side.
Here
is the rear.
The
top of the Lexar S33. Inside there is also a carrying ring, the drive is made
of plastic and it’s very well built.
The rear
of the Lexar S33 JumpDrive
A close
view of the side of the Lexar S33.
The
arrow pointing to the size of the drive also houses the orange LED that indicates
activity when reading or writing data.
Specifications
Let's take a look at the specifications of
the Lexar S33 JumpDrive as they appear on the official website.
Lexar continues to colour code their
drives, and this makes it much easier to identify the capacity of the S33 JumpDrive.
Also we can see that all the drives will reach a maximum read speed of
100MB/Sec but the 8GB and 16GB versions will only reach a max write speed of 15MB/Sec
and 30MB/Sec, the 32GB and 64GB will give the fastest write speed of 55MB/Sec.
Now let's start our tests with the FAT32
file-system...
