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

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure the theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We are using v8.0.5.

Kioxia's Exceria Plus G4 does very well in the CrystalDiskMark 8 4K QD1 T1 test, with a read score of 90.17MB/s, the second fastest behind Samsung's SSD 9100 PRO. Its write result of 348.73MB/s is also the second fastest we've seen to date.

As can be seen from the benchmarking result screens, we could confirm the drive's official sequential ratings of up to 10,000MB/s for reads and up to 8,500MB/s for writes and even better them a little with default test figures of 10,397.38MB/s for reads and 8,790.26MB/s for writes.

Those 10,397MB/s and 8,79MB/s result figures are the best we've seen to date for a Phison PS5031-E31T powered drive.

Peak Performance Profile

We can confirm the official random 4K figures for the drive of up to 1,300,000 IOPS for reads and up to 1,500,000 IOPS for writes and, indeed, better them a little using the Peak Performance profile of CrystalDiskMark 8 with default test results of 1,451,170 IOPS for reads and 1,606,249 IOPS for writes.

 

Once again, we could confirm the official Sequential figures with test results of 10,408MB/s for reads and 8,793MB/s for writes.

Real World Profile

Using the Real World profile tests in CrystalDiskMark 8, the drive produced Sequential read / write results of 5,562MB/s and 8.693MB/s, respectively, putting it at the foot of the results chart.

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