Kioxia Exceria Plus G3 2TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Kioxia Exceria Plus G3 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

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

Transfer Request Size: 128KB, Thread(s): 1, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.

128KB Sequential Read / Write.

With our 128KB Sequential tests, we could confirm both the official ratings for the drive of up to 5,000MB/s for reads and up to 3,900MB/s for writes with best test result figures of 5,050MB/s and 3,962MB/s for reads and writes respectively.

128KB Sequential Read performance v QD compared.

In relation to the drives sitting around it, the Exceria Plus G3 performs best at QDs 1 and 4. At QDs 2 and 32, it's very close to the bottom of the chart.

128KB Sequential Write performance v QD compared.

The Kioxia Exceria Plus G3's best performance comes at QD1 where it sits third in the results chart but as the QD deepens the performance drops off and the drive falls down the table.

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