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Our review this morning of the KIOXIA Exceria Plus G2 2TB Portable SSD comes on the heals of our last KIOXIA Review of the Exceria Plus G4 Gen5 M.2 SSD just a few weeks back. Our reviews of KIOXIA products are rather unique as they are Europe and Asia based products that may or may not be predominant in North American sales. Checking Amazon just now, we can see a large number of KIOXIA products being sold through Amazon via Import…so they are available. Let’s take a look at the Exceria Plus G2 Portable SSD.
The KIOXIA Exceria Plus G2 is a 10Gbps Portable SSD that will reach performance highs of about 1050MB/s read and write when connected to PCs or laptops with a Type-C port compatible with USB 3.2 Gen 2 products such as this. It is available in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacitiies.
This package contains the portable SSD itself, a Type-C to Type-C cable, Type-C to Type-A cable and an instruction manual. It also comes with a 3-year limited warranty.
Performance using the Type-A cable is around 450MB/s, so just under half that of what the drive is capable of.
The physical build of the Exceria Plus G2 SSD is of a solid smooth flat black aluminum housing and is pocket-size with a very comfortable round shape. This device is listed as shockproof and we can guess by the build that there is practically no way of damaging the exterior because of its design. It’s dimensions are 72 x 40 x 11.8mm and weighing just 42g.
The KIOXIA Exceria Plus G2 Portable SSD relies on the Phison PS5012-E12 4-channel controller along with KIOXIA proprietary 96-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory. It also has mass compatibility with Windows, MacOS, Android, IOS, PS4/5 and XBox.
KIOXIA’s SSD Utility Management software can be found here and also allows one to secure this SSD through password management as this SSDs Phison controller enables AES 256-bit encryption.
Last but not least…pricing. We can only find the 512GB version on Amazon USA right now and it is priced at $113.00. The great thing about technology, however, is that our link will click to your local Amazon when you are checking pricing and availability, which will probably also show 1/2 TB versions as well if you are in Europe or the Asias.
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Here are a few final speed results to close things off!
ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications. ATTO uses RAW or compressible data and, for our benchmarks, we use a set length of 256mb and test both the read and write performance of various transfer sizes ranging from 0.5 to 8192kb. Manufacturers prefer this method of testing as it deals with raw (compressible) data rather than random (includes incompressible data) which, although more realistic, results in lower performance results.
TxBENCH
TxBench is one of our newly discovered benchmarks that we works much the same as Crystal DiskMark, but with several other features. Advanced load benchmarking can be configured, as well as full drive information and data erasing via secure erase, enhanced secure erase, TRIM and overwriting.
Why does the RND4K Q1T1 write speed go up in the second screenshot of CrystalDiskMark when you are using a slower USB connection?? I suspect that you would get a different result for that value if you repeated the test because that makes no sense.
How reliable are these test results even when certain values seem to be purely random? It makes no sense that the RND4K Q1T1 write speed is higher when using a slower connection.
At least the other values for read and write speed look reasonable and it’s understandable that the sequential read and write speed goes down when you use a slower USB connection. I guess you were using a USB-A port with USB 3.2 Gen 1 which has a max bandwidth of 5 Gbit/s (625 MB/s).
However USB-A is not limited to 5 Gbit/s. It can have a bandwidth up to 10 Gbit/s if your laptop has a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port. So using USB-A does not necessarily lead to slower read and write speeds.
Result is still the same. One test is tested using PCIe lanes and the other SATA. SATA III has a theoretical maximum of 6Gb/s or 600MB/s, but we have never seen that reached, regardless of what port you use. Thanks for jumping in.