Kioxia Exceria Plus G3 2TB SSD Review

 
Kioxia's Exceria Plus G3 comes in a compact box with an image of the drive on the front, along with a sticker displaying the capacity of the drive and the drive's Sequential read speed (up to 5,000MB/s). The rear of the box has a description of the drive’s form factor, a small logo representing it uses BiCS Flash, PCIe Gen 4 x4 interface and has a 5-year warranty.

The Exceria Plus G3 is built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format.

With the drive being built on a single-sided format, all the components are to be found on one side of the PCB. Alongside the Phison PS5021-E21 controller are four packages of BiCS TLC NAND (coded TH58LKT2Z25BA8K). Phison's PS5021-E21T is a 4-channel controller built on a 12nm process using single-CPU architecture (built-in ARM Cortex-R5). Designed for DRAM-less operation, it supports both TLC and QLC NAND with a transfer rate of up to 1600MT/s and has a capacity limit of 4TB. Data reliability is provided by Phison's 4th generation LDPC ECC along with End-To-End Data Path Protection and Smart ECC 2.0. It also supports AES 256-bit Encryption.

Kioxia's SSD Utility drive management software has had a bit of a refresh with a better-looking interface. There are four main sections; Disk Information, System, Settings and Help. All the key tools are to be found on the Disk Information page under separate tabs. These allow you to check drive capacity usage, health and temperature, SMART information, drive alerts and perform operations such as firmware updates and secure erase.

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