Kioxia Exceria 960GB SSD Review

The front of the box is dominated by an image of the drive with the capacity listed on the bottom left-hand side of the box. The rear of the box has a description of the drive's format, the fact it uses BiCS Flash, supports TRIM and has a 3-year warranty.

Built on a standard 2.5in, 7mm format, the enclosure of the Exceria is of metal construction and is a ‘clipped’ design.

The PCB is a 3/4 design, i.e doesn’t quite fill the enclosure.

Although the Exceria is essentially the TR200 rebranded, there was a surprise when we opened up the drive as the NAND layout is different from the 960GB TR200 we reviewed a while back. Instead of the eight NAND packages used by the TR200, our review Exceria has four packages of denser NAND.

One side of the PCB has two packages of BiCS 3D TLC NAND (coded TH58TFT1T23BS8) while the other side of the board holds another two NAND packages and the tiny Toshiba (TC58NC1010GSB) controller. Details on the controller are pretty hard to find. The controller has a thermal pad stuck to it to wick away the heat from the controller into the drives enclosure. One thing to note is that the drive is a DRAM free design.

The SSD Utility management software gives an overview of system status, capacity, interface, health and updates. It even has a benchmarking tool. The utility also provides support for firmware upgrades and over-provisioning.

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