The Kioxia Exceria is one of those discounted SSDs, dropping to £55, but it’s actually a fairly high-end SSD with TLC NAND and a DRAM cache. This ensures that performance remains high even in scenarios where you’re writing data fairly continuously.
Get the Kioxia Exceria 1TB NVMe SSD for £54.99 (was £83.99)
Any downsides? Well, the drive is far from the fastest option available - at 1700MB/s sequential reads (and 1600MB/s writes) maximum, it’s a fraction of the speed of the fastest PCIe 3.0 SSDs - never mind the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs. But it’s still several times faster than even the fastest SATA SSDs, so sequential performance is quite reasonable in the grand scheme of things. Random performance isn’t bad either, with random reads and writes of 350K and 400K, respectively, which puts it among the realms of other PCIe 3.0 SSDs that cost significantly more. Still, I reckon that this drive is well worth picking up if you need the extra space for media or games, and given that it’s a TLC DRAM SSD, it’s suitable enough for primary OS use too. If you were choosing an SSD for a higher-end PC though, there are some brilliant other recommendations for gaming SSDs here. Anyway, that’s enough information I reckon. Brilliant. I’m going to go watch an episode of those Oxventurers. See you guys later!
