Kioxia Exceria Plus 500Gb NVMe review
Kioxia's Exceria Plus works on PCIe M.2 3.0 x 4 bus. More details about this NVMe in our article.
Exceria Plus (500Gb) produced by Kioxia use Toshiba TC58NC1201GST-00-BB controller. This NVMe SSD has Dynamic-Random Access Memory 2GB DDR4 pSLC-Cache for mapping data, located on the drive. The Exceria Plus comes equipped with Toshiba 3D TLC memory. This drive also available in 2 Tb and 1 Tb capacities.
Performance and benchmarks
SSD use PCIe M.2 3.0 x 4 with maximum read speeds 3400 Mbps, and write speeds equals to 3200 Mbps. It also has input/output performance 680000 on reading and 620000 on writing operations per second.
Endurance and warranty
Manufacturer provide 5 years of warranty limited by 240 TBW. As well it has 2 million hours MTBF.
Specs
| Category | Value |
| Capacity | 500 Gb |
| Interface | M.2 3.0 x 4 |
| Controller | Toshiba TC58NC1201GST-00-BB |
| Memory type | Toshiba 3D TLC |
| DRAM | 2GB DDR4 pSLC-Cache |
| Read speed (Mb/s) | 3400 |
| Write speed (Mb/s) | 3200 |
| Read IOPS | 680000 |
| Write IOPS | 620000 |
| Endurance (TBW) | 240 |
| MTBF (million hours) | 2 |
| Warranty (years) | 5 |
Conclusion
Exceria Plus (500Gb) produced by Kioxia support PCIe 3 that is significantly slower than PCIe 4.0. The maximum write speed is 3200 Mb/s, that is faster than has other competitors. The drive provide possibility to write 240 TBW, that is bad compared to nearest rivals. Weighing all these factors, Kioxia Exceria Plus 500Gb has more disadvantages and our site do not recommend to have it.
+ Pros
- Excellent writing speed
- Cons
- PCIe 3.0
- Capacity
- Writing speed
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