• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

Kioxia Exceria SATA SSD 1 TB

W1zzard

Administrator
Staff member
Joined
May 14, 2004
Messages
27,742 (3.71/day)
Processor Ryzen 7 5700X
Memory 48 GB
Video Card(s) RTX 4080
Storage 2x HDD RAID 1, 3x M.2 NVMe
Display(s) 30" 2560x1600 + 19" 1280x1024
Software Windows 10 64-bit
The Kioxia Exceria SATA is a highly affordable 2.5" SATA SSD that only costs $80 for the reviewed 1 TB version. It is built using a Phison S11 controller paired with 64-layer 3D TLC NAND flash from Toshiba. A DRAM cache is not available due to the drive's low price point.

Show full review
 
Joined
Aug 4, 2020
Messages
1,609 (1.03/day)
Location
::1
welp. i guess kioxia can't just keep on winning. considering how great their nvme offerings had been (and at a similar price point), and what the competitors have to offer (again, at a similar price point) - why, no thank you.
what a bust.
 
Joined
Mar 20, 2019
Messages
556 (0.27/day)
Processor 9600k
Motherboard MSI Z390I Gaming EDGE AC
Cooling Scythe Mugen 5
Memory 32GB of G.Skill Ripjaws V 3600MHz CL16
Video Card(s) MSI 3080 Ventus OC
Storage 2x Intel 660p 1TB
Display(s) Acer CG437KP
Case Streacom BC1 mini
Audio Device(s) Topping MX3
Power Supply Corsair RM750
Mouse R.A.T. DWS
Keyboard HAVIT KB487L / AKKO 3098 / Logitech G19
VR HMD HTC Vive
Benchmark Scores What's a "benchmark"?
welp. i guess kioxia can't just keep on winning. considering how great their nvme offerings had been (and at a similar price point), and what the competitors have to offer (again, at a similar price point) - why, no thank you.
what a bust.
What's so bad about it? It's a cheap SSD for actual people, not for self-appointed "enthusiast" types. I'm fairly sure my mother would not care in the slightest whether Windows boots in ten seconds instead of eight. Also, 20% more for a slightly faster drive, in a situation where speed is of little significance, is not a "similar price point".
 
Joined
Jun 18, 2021
Messages
2,544 (2.05/day)
Max 1TB!? I know it's a budget option but would it have killed them to make 2TB options available?
 
Joined
Aug 4, 2020
Messages
1,609 (1.03/day)
Location
::1
What's so bad about it? It's a cheap SSD for actual people, not for self-appointed "enthusiast" types. I'm fairly sure my mother would not care in the slightest whether Windows boots in ten seconds instead of eight. Also, 20% more for a slightly faster drive, in a situation where speed is of little significance, is not a "similar price point".
true, but there are products of the same price (class) that are better - if this were say, $50 or $60 per TB well, now we'd be talkin' but yea
 
Joined
Mar 9, 2018
Messages
190 (0.08/day)
What's so bad about it? It's a cheap SSD for actual people, not for self-appointed "enthusiast" types. I'm fairly sure my mother would not care in the slightest whether Windows boots in ten seconds instead of eight. Also, 20% more for a slightly faster drive, in a situation where speed is of little significance, is not a "similar price point".
To be fair, your mother, or any actual people, might not need 1tb of ssd storage either.

The way i see it, this drive is fine if your use case does not care for it's weaknesses, but as an actual piece of technology, doesn't look so good when you can get a better drive overall for so little money. I don't care if it is 20%, you're not buying these in bulk (i think?).

20 dollars doesn't get you much these days, i'd rather invest in a better unit with longer warranty, as i'll be using it for the next 5 years or more
 
Joined
Mar 14, 2008
Messages
511 (0.08/day)
Location
DK
System Name Main setup
Processor i9 12900K
Motherboard Gigabyte z690 Gaming X
Cooling Water
Memory Kingston 32GB 5200@cl30
Video Card(s) Asus Tuf RTS 4090
Storage Adata SX8200 PRO 1 adn 2 TB, Samsung 960EVO, Crucial MX300 750GB Limited edition
Display(s) HP "cheapass" 34" 3440x1440
Case CM H500P Mesh
Audio Device(s) Logitech G933
Power Supply Corsair RX850i
Mouse G502
Keyboard SteelSeries Apex Pro
Software W11
And it is not 1TB, only 960 GB (894 GB usable) but Yes a 1920GB (1788 GB) would have been nice.
 

W1zzard

Administrator
Staff member
Joined
May 14, 2004
Messages
27,742 (3.71/day)
Processor Ryzen 7 5700X
Memory 48 GB
Video Card(s) RTX 4080
Storage 2x HDD RAID 1, 3x M.2 NVMe
Display(s) 30" 2560x1600 + 19" 1280x1024
Software Windows 10 64-bit
And it is not 1TB, only 960 GB (894 GB usable)
Correct, for simplicity I called it "1 TB", the calculations use 960 GB of course
 
Joined
Feb 20, 2019
Messages
8,211 (3.93/day)
System Name Bragging Rights
Processor Atom Z3735F 1.33GHz
Motherboard It has no markings but it's green
Cooling No, it's a 2.2W processor
Memory 2GB DDR3L-1333
Video Card(s) Gen7 Intel HD (4EU @ 311MHz)
Storage 32GB eMMC and 128GB Sandisk Extreme U3
Display(s) 10" IPS 1280x800 60Hz
Case Veddha T2
Audio Device(s) Apparently, yes
Power Supply Samsung 18W 5V fast-charger
Mouse MX Anywhere 2
Keyboard Logitech MX Keys (not Cherry MX at all)
VR HMD Samsung Oddyssey, not that I'd plug it into this though....
Software W10 21H1, barely
Benchmark Scores I once clocked a Celeron-300A to 564MHz on an Abit BE6 and it scored over 9000.
64L, rebranded budget controller, DRAMless - this thing needs to be much cheaper or much faster to garner any real attention.

It's not terrible, but being late to the party with a mediocre offering was never a winning strategy.
 
Top