Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 2TB Gen 5 SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD 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

The 3DMark Storage Benchmark uses traces recorded from popular games and gaming-related activities to measure real-world gaming performance.

Traces used:

Battlefield V
Loading Battlefield™ V from launch to the main menu.

Call of Duty Black Ops 4
Loading Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 from launch to the main menu.

Overwatch
Loading Overwatch® from launch to the main menu.

Game Move
Copying the Steam folder for Counter-Strike®: Global Offensive from an external SSD to the system drive.

Game Recording
Recording a 1080p gameplay video at 60 FPS with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) while playing Overwatch®.

Installing Game
Installing The Outer Worlds® from the Epic Games Launcher.

Game Saving
Saving progress in The Outer Worlds game.

In 3DMark’s Storage Test, the Exceria Plus G4 produced an average game loading bandwidth figure for the three games of 798.38MB/s with an average access time of 63µs, which is more or less the same performance as the Phison E31T reference design and Corsair's MP700 Elite, which also uses the E31T.

In the Game Move, Recording, Installing and Saving traces part of the benchmark, the drive averaged 1,065.32MB/s with an average access time for the four tests of 42.5µs, which sees the drive in last place on the table, quite some way back from the other E31T equipped drives.

The average bandwidth figure for the E31T for the complete benchmark run was 655.51MB/s, which puts the drive in last place in the results table.

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