Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 2 TB

[W1zzard]

The Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 features Phison’s new E31 controller, designed for PCI-Express 5.0 with a focus on power efficiency. This allows for fan-free operation without compromising performance. Pricing is also competitive, it's the most affordable Gen 5 SSD on the market right now.

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[Dragokar]

Thanks for the review^^

 

[TristanX]

Pretty good economic Gen5 drive.
Bit off topic. Is it true that Z890/B860 mobos have transfer M2 slots limited to only 12.6 GB/s ? Seems that attaching SSD to links from graphics lanes, remove that limitation. Not sure it is by design, or can by corrected by BIOS / drivers.

 

[Wirko]

It's obvious that we're going to see Gen 5 SSDs in two tiers: 4-channel reaching about 10 GB/s and 8-channel reaching about 14 GB/s. It's simply a repeat of Gen 4, multiplied by two. Nothing wrong with that, the lower tier is often the best value.

Have other SSD controller manufacturers already announced any 4-channel Gen 5 models?

 

[csendesmark]

I was expecting better thermal performance from the Phison E31T.
Really curious on the new Samsung 9100 PRO.
Hope W1zzard will test it early!

 

[mtosev]

I was expecting better thermal performance from the Phison E31T.
Really curious on the new Samsung 9100 PRO.
Hope W1zzard will test it early!

I'm also interested in the review of the 9100 pro.

 

[_roman_]

I also came to that conclusion by just checking the charts.

• In real-life not significantly faster than the best Gen 4 drives

I get the feeling PCIE 5.0 is just a marketing hoax. Maybe I should remember, it's up to PCIE 5.0 speeds.

 

[Marsil]

Title says : "Energy-Efficient PCIe Gen 5"

But one of the cons points: "High idle power usage (desktop)"

I'm confused!!

 

[bug]

I also came to that conclusion by just checking the charts.



I get the feeling PCIE 5.0 is just a marketing hoax. Maybe I should remember, it's up to PCIE 5.0 speeds.

It's not that PCIe5 is a hoax, it's that, unlike in the server world, you just don't have that many high-volume sequential transfers on a desktop. That and the glacial rate of improvement for random reads (of which you get a ton on a desktop).

Also, where did this come from?

Very impressive result, not sure if it means that the controller silently ignores fsync, or if it really flushes data to NAND at this incredible speed.

What's the impressive part, the drive sits in the lower half of the bunch.

 

[Selaya]

its 2025 and we still cant make a drive that has higher sustained sequential write speed than the 960/970 pro. amazing.

 

[bonehead123]

Thanks, but no thanks.....

Until they can make seriously significant improvements (like 30-50%) in all performance perimeters, I'll just stick with my WD850x's & be happy that I've got several of the fastest drives out there

 

[Wirko]

Thanks, but no thanks.....

Until they can make seriously significant improvements (like 30-50%) in all performance perimeters, I'll just stick with my WD850x's & be happy that I've got several of the fastest drives out there

WD wants to stop making SSDs. Unless they figure out how to make rust-based SSDs of course. Rust is one of the best materials anyway, it doesn't oxidise and degrade because it's already fully oxidised.

 

[LabRat 891]

How does it perform in a Gen4 or Gen3 slot? (a lot of laptops have lagged behind in exposed PCIe Generation)

I'd think the faster controller, NAND, etc. would still make this as fast/faster than many Gen4 drives. -and, run cooler being lesser-loaded.
Though, Slower Gen4 drives (Q4, P41+, C910) in a Gen3 slot seem to 'lose more' than a faster Gen4 (Rocket4, 990pro) drive in Gen3.

Being Most affordable Gen 5 SSD on the market, I might have me grab one to play w/ in Gen4 X570 (to compare to TPU's Gen5 data)

 

[DigitalDude]

Looks like I'm good with my 990 pro 2TB for another 5 years. Going to carry over to my next build shortly instead of a gen5 drive.

So, practically I have no use for gen 5 in both m2 NVME and also in pcie. For the foreseeable future atleast...

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Shame no 4 or 8tb options

 

[W1zzard]

What's the impressive part, the drive sits in the lower half of the bunch.

Copy paste error .. fixed

 

[Delta6326]

Thanks, but no thanks.....

Until they can make seriously significant improvements (like 30-50%) in all performance perimeters, I'll just stick with my WD850x's & be happy that I've got several of the fastest drives out there

Right!? As cool as these drives synthetic performance is, real world just isn't there. Need windows and app's to better utilize SSD's. Love my WD SN850x's and glad I got them when it was just $90 for 2TB!

 

[b1k3rdude]

Love the 4kqd1 speeds, best Ive seen to date. Shame the sustained speeds drop off a cliff after 400gb though...

 

[csendesmark]

I also came to that conclusion by just checking the charts.



I get the feeling PCIE 5.0 is just a marketing hoax. Maybe I should remember, it's up to PCIE 5.0 speeds.

This never meant to be that
There are only some drivers which can do the 14GB/s R/W, and they getting red hot before you know it!
See Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 14000 SSD 4TB.
This is why I so curious of the new Samsung!
That might be the first gen5 SSD which will be adequately to serve the bus speeds. (Or at least I hope)

 

[Kaleid]

I also came to that conclusion by just checking the charts.



I get the feeling PCIE 5.0 is just a marketing hoax. Maybe I should remember, it's up to PCIE 5.0 speeds.

And we never saw the rise of DirectStorage game loading performance boosts :/

 

[csendesmark]

And we never saw the rise of DirectStorage game loading performance boosts :/

If you getting one for gaming, it is more important to have the capacity than the speeds.
For speeds, gen3 (with 3~4GB/s) is already plenty!

 

[Wirko]

And we never saw the rise of DirectStorage game loading performance boosts :/

Some performance boosts were observed, but they were more noticeable with slow SSDs, which means SATA.

 

[Kaleid]

Some performance boosts were observed, but they were more noticeable with slow SSDs, which means SATA.

I expected many major engines to boost loading times massive..

 

[Athena]

Title says : "Energy-Efficient PCIe Gen 5"

But one of the cons points: "High idle power usage (desktop)"

I'm confused!!

IKR, they both can't be true... unless the "high power usage at idle" is actually lower than other SSDs, but, if that was the case, then it wouldn't really be a con

 

[Kaleid]

So it doesn't use a lot in peak but could have lower idle usage... So there's one point where it still could be more efficient