Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS 1TB M.2 SSD

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Hi

Just wanted to share my experiences with you. I recently purchased this drive, unfortunately not from OCUK as they were out of stock of the Toshiba Kioxia RD500 so I had to purchase the Kioxia Exeria Plus elsewhere. Same drive basically.

What a great Gen 3 drive for £162!
https://personal.kioxia.com/en-emea/ssd/exceria-plus-nvme-ssd.html

Kioxia-Exceria-SSD.jpg

  • Size: 1TB
  • Read: 3,400MB/s
  • Write: 3,200MB/s
  • Read IOPS: 680k
  • Write IOPS: 620k
I was interested in this drive as it seemed to have things that most of the others didn't (or that I'm not aware of):
  • NVMe™ 1.3c technology
  • BiCS FLASH™
  • 96-Layer 3D NAND
  • 8-channel controller
And of course a 5 year warranty.

So I did have a Corsair MP510 480GB M.2 and in comparison my PC seems even snappier than before. The MP510:
  • Size: 480GB
  • Read: 3,400MB/s
  • Write: 2,000MB/s
  • Read IOPS: 360k
  • Write IOPS: 440k
I also managed to do a quick comparison using DiskMark:

MP510
DiskMark.jpg


Exceria Plus
Exceria-Plus.jpg


Seems to hit the advertised Read/Write speeds. And the write speeds and random 4K speeds seem a lot better. Guru3D did a review of the 2TB model.

Thanks for reading. :)
 
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mickyflinn said:
Nice mini review.

Why don't you put the advatise read/write speeds, etc for the mp 510

Larger drives tend to be slightly faster than there smaller counterparts.
Click to expand...

Thanks. :) I've added those speeds, good idea.

That's a good point and was a mistake I made grabbing the 480GB MP510. I was just going off what space I needed, and for an OS drive I was thinking it was more than enough. I hadn't realised the higher capacities had better performance, so this time around I made sure I went for the higher size.

Hopefully people appreciate the little review on a different make / model that perhaps ordinarily they wouldn't consider.
 
Wow. A lot of sarcastic responses. I don't need a Gen 4 drive and I don't have a Gen 4 board so why would I buy a Gen 4 drive. I was simply posting about my experience going from the MP510 to the Kioxia Exceria Plus. :confused: I'm not anywhere saying "you must buy this drive now". And £162 for a 1TB SSD is a good price... just compare it to the Samsung Evo Plus at £200 or the Pro at over £300. So yeah, it is a good price relative to other Gen 3 1TB drives available and the cheapest 1TB drive OCUK sell is £130. Why is £162 suddenly too much.

I had a look for the 1TB Sabrent Rocket. I can't see anywhere where it is "half the price"... Amazon shows it as £130. So it's £32 cheaper.

If you don't want to pay £162 for a 1TB Gen 3 drive then don't. That's your decision.

Please keep your useless responses to yourself.
 
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