Kioxia BG5 1TB SSD Review

The 3DMark Storage Benchmark uses traces recorded from popular games and gaming-related activities to measure real-world gaming performance.

Traces used –

• Battlefield V
  Loading Battlefield™ V from launch to the main menu.
• Call of Duty Black Ops 4
  Loading Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 from launch to the main menu.
• Overwatch
  Loading Overwatch® from launch to the main menu.
• Game Move
  Copying the Steam folder for Counter-Strike®: Global Offensive from an external SSD to the system drive.
• Game Recording
  Recording a 1080p gameplay video at 60 FPS with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) while playing Overwatch®.
• Installing Game
  Installing The Outer Worlds® from the Epic Games Launcher.
• Game Saving
  Saving progress in The Outer Worlds game.

Kioxia's BG5 isn't a drive you would pick for gaming and to be fair to Kioxia, it's not marketed as one. In 3DMark’s Storage Test, the BG5 had an average bandwidth figure of 482MB/s for the three-game load tests (Battlefield V, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Overwatch) with an average access time of 114µs for the same three games.

The overall average bandwidth figure for the complete test run was 447.52MB/s which sees the drive in last but one place in the results chart.

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