Kioxia’s newest addition to their Exceria lineup of PCIe Gen4 SSDs is the Exceria Plus G3, a drive aimed on the mainstream market utilizing a mix of a Phison controller and BiCS NAND. With the 2TB mannequin retailing for barely £100, let’s discover out if this drive is value shopping for.
At launch simply two capacities; 1TB and 2TB, make up the Exceria Plus G3 product line. On the coronary heart of the Plus G3 is a Phison PS5021-E21 4-channel DRAM-less controller which is utilized in mixture with Kioxia BiCS TLC NAND though on the time of writing, Kioxia hasn’t disclosed which model of BiCS it’s utilizing within the drive.
Kioxia charges each drives’ Sequential efficiency as as much as 5,000MB/s for reads and as much as 3,900MB/s for writes. As for 4K random efficiency, each drives have the identical as much as 950,000 IOPS ranking for writes whereas the 2TB drive is rated as as much as 680,000 IOPS for reads the 1TB drive is quicker at as much as 770,000 IOPs.
The TBW endurance for the Exceria Plus G3 drives is quoted as as much as 600TB for the 1TB drive and 1.200TB for the flagship 2TB drive and Kioxia backs the vary with a 5-year guarantee.
Bodily Specs:
- Usable Capacities: 2TB.
- NAND Elements: Kioxia BiCS TLC NAND.
- NAND Controller: Phison PS5021-E21.
- Cache: None.
- Interface: PCIe Gen 4 x4, NVMe 1.4.
- Kind Issue: M.2 2280.
- Dimensions: 22.15 x 80.15 x 2.63mm.
- Drive Weight: 7.4g.
Firmware Model: ELFA01.2
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