Kioxia XG5-P 1Tb NVMe tech review

Posted on November 07, 2022 by Raymond Chen

Kioxia's XG5-P use PCIe M.2 3.0 x 4 expansion standard. Detailed characteristics of this NVMe SSD in our article.

XG5-P (1Tb) produced by Kioxia is powered by Toshiba TC58NCP090GSD. The internal SSD write a data location map on Dynamic-Random Access Memory DDR3 RAM to run a games without delays. The XG5-P comes equipped with Toshiba 3D TLC memory. This NVMe is offered also in 2; Tb volume sizes.

Performance and benchmarks

Storage works on PCIe M.2 3.0 x 4 computer expansion bus standard with read speeds 3000 Mbps, and sequential write speeds equals to 2200 MB/s.

Endurance and warranty

Kioxia provide 3-year warranty. As well it has 1.5 million hours MTBF.

Specs

Category	Value
Capacity	1 Tb
Interface	M.2 3.0 x 4
Controller	Toshiba TC58NCP090GSD
Memory type	Toshiba 3D TLC
DRAM	DDR3 RAM
Read speed (Mb/s)	3000
Write speed (Mb/s)	2200
Read IOPS	n/a
Write IOPS	n/a
Endurance (TBW)	n/a
MTBF (million hours)	1.5
Warranty (years)	3

Conclusion

XG5-P (1Tb) produced by Kioxia support PCIe 3 that is significantly slower than PCIe Gen4. The write speed is 2200 Mb/s, that is common for this expansion standard. Weighing all these factors, we highly advise to have Kioxia XG5-P 1Tb for your PC.

+ Pros

Good writing speed
Capacity

- Cons

PCIe 3.0

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FAQ

The Kioxia XG5-P has DDR3 RAM. Dynamic Random-Access Memory in their controller help to increase endurance and IOPS.

The Kioxia XG5-P 1Tb due to the low density of memory chips may run without additional cooling systems. Some motherboards from the factory has additional cooling above and below the drive to improve performance during high loads.

The Kioxia XG5-P has maximum write speed 2200 Mb per second, maximum read speed 3000 Mb per second. NVMe run on Toshiba TC58NCP090GSD controller and M.2 3.0 x 4 high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard. The NAND flash memory type is Toshiba 3D TLC.