The Lexar JumpDrive Triton received an 8.8 and our Highly Recommended award when we reviewed it almost exactly one year ago. Lexar has gone from 150 MB/s read and write to well over 240 MB/s on paper with the JumpDrive P10. This is a hefty jump while keeping the retail price essentially the same as when the Triton was released.

There is not much to say about the quality of the stick as it comes in the same excellent alloy tray, with its solid use of plastic and sturdy sliding mechanism to protect the USB connector. The unit also manages to tickle at the maximum performance of 245 MB/s write and 265 MB/s read Lexar advertised when the drive is benched specifically. But during other tests, those advertised specifications unfortunately hold more for write and not read performance, as the JumpDrive P10 offers consistent write performance hitting the 245 MB/s threshold more often, while its read performance maximum is far more unlikely. The P10 even ends up being slower than the Triton on average in the HDTach long benchmark, which is unfortunate. But it still deserves our Highly Recommended award for making the competition eat some serious dust in terms of write speed, which is something the Triton was unable to do a year ago.