Kioxia Exceria Plus G3 2TB SSD Review

The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.

The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.

Traces used:

Booting Windows 10.
Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
Overwatch – starting the game until main menu.
Using Adobe After Effects.
Using Microsoft Excel.
Using Adobe Illustrator.
Using Adobe InDesign.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
cp2 Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
cp3 Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
cps1Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
cps2 Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
cps3 Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).

The 2TB Kioxia Exceria Plus G3 does a pretty good job of dealing with PCMark10's Full System Drive Benchmark. It averaged 248MB/s for the six Adobe startup traces, the fastest being 301MB/s for the startup test trace of Premiere Pro. For the Adobe usage traces it averaged 520.8MB/s for the five tests, with the fastest being the 1,091MB/s for the Adobe Photoshop heavy usage trace.

The drive averaged 744MB/s for the three gaming test traces, the fastest being Battlefield V at 898MB/s just ahead of Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 at 892MB/s and finally Overwatch at 443MB/s. When it came to the file transfers, the fastest was the cp1 write test at 4,192MB/s. Overall the drive averaged 2,196MB/s for the six file transfer tests.

The Kioxia Exceria Plus G3 produces an overall bandwidth figure for the benchmark of 551.34MB/s which is good enough to put the drive into the top 10 in our results chart.

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