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Kioxia Exceria SSD Roundup Review

Kioxia Exceria NVMe SSD

When you want to kick it up a notch, but still not break the budget, then you go with a budget-oriented NVMe drive. That could be something like this Kioxia Exceria NVMe SSD which doesn’t deliver groundbreaking speeds, but still a solid performance. It comes in the well known M.2 2280 form factor which will fit into most modern systems.

You can get the Exceria NVMe SSD in three different capacity options: 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB. With those three options, most situations are covered where a drive such as this will be utilised. It is mainly intended for office systems and general computing situations such as home office and media PCs.

The drive isn’t just smaller and faster than a 2.5-inch SATA SSD, it is also lighter than them with just 6g to 6.9g. This is useful for portable systems where every gram of weight counts when you have to carry it around all day long.

Performance and Endurance

Let us get to some numbers. As I hinted above, the Exceria isn’t the fastest NVMe drive on the block, but it still delivers good performance. It is rated for a sequential performance of up to 1700MB/s when reading and 1600MB/s when writing. The random performance comes in at 350K IOPS when reading and 400K IOPS while writing. That is a lot better than what a SATA drive can offer you and some solid figures.

When it gets to endurance, you get a TBW rating of 100TB per 250GB capacity. That makes this 1TB version come in at 400TB. The meantime before failure is rated at 1.5 million hours and Kioxia backs the drive with a 5-year warranty.