Kioxia Exceria SATA SSD 1 TB

[W1zzard]

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.

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[Selaya]

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.

 

[TheUn4seen]

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".

 

[trsttte]

Max 1TB!? I know it's a budget option but would it have killed them to make 2TB options available?

 

[Selaya]

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

 

[Vader]

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

 

[JalleR]

And it is not 1TB, only 960 GB (894 GB usable) but Yes a 1920GB (1788 GB) would have been nice.

 

[W1zzard]

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

 

[lexluthermiester]

Faster than QLC SATA SSDs

And as it's 3D-TLC, the cell durability will be better as well.

 

[Chrispy_]

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.