Kioxia Exceria Plus G3 2TB SSD Review

We used CrystalDiskMark 8‘s custom settings to test the 4K random write performance of the drive through a range of queue depths. The setup for the tests is listed below.

Transfer Request Size: 4KB, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.

Kioxia rates the 4K random write performance of the Exceria Plus G3 as up to 950,000 IOPS. As with the random reads, with our four threaded tests, we couldn't get close to that number. The best test figure we saw was 412,404 IOPS (QD8).

4K random write performance v QD compared.

At QD1 the drive sits on top of the chart, the fastest 2TB class Gen 4 drive we've seen to date, being some 16,841 IOPS faster than the nearest rival, Crucial's T500. However, as the QD deepens the drive begins to sink down the chart but it never drops below the top 10 drives we've tested to date.

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