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Kioxia 256GB SSD PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280
Capacity 256GB
Form Factor M.2 2280
Interface PCIe 3.0 x4
Read Speed 3,050 MB/s
46 Overall Score
No current retailer price
Snapshot
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong affordability (89th percentile) 89th
- Strong random (84th percentile) 84th
Cons
- Below average capacity (18th percentile)
- Below average endurance (30th percentile)
- Below average feature (34th percentile)
The proof
Performance
Specifications
Full Specifications
Drive
| Capacity | 256 |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Protocol | NVMe |
| PCIe Generation | 3 |
| External | No |
Performance
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | 3050 |
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | 1550 |
| Random Read (IOPS) | 355000 |
| Random Write (IOPS) | 365000 |
Reliability
| MTBF (hours) | 1500000 |
Features
| Hardware Encryption | Yes |
vs Competition
| Spec | Kioxia 256GB SSD | Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SFYR2S/4T0 | Samsung 990 PRO | SanDisk WD_BLACK WDS800T2XHE | Lexar NM1090 PRO LNM109P004T-RNNNU | Team Group T-FORCE G70 PRO TM8FFH004T0C128 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 256GB | 4TB | 2TB | 8TB | 4TB | 4TB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 | PCIe 5.0 | PCIe 4.0 |
| Seq Read | 3,050 MB/s | 14,800 MB/s | 7,450 MB/s | 7,200 MB/s | 14,000 MB/s | 7,400 MB/s |
| Nand Type | - | TLC | TLC | TLC | SLC | TLC |
| Dram Cache | - | true | true | true | true | true |
| Endurance | - | 4000 TBW | 1200 TBW | 4800 TBW | 2800 TBW | 2960 TBW |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | Speed | Random | Feature | Capacity | User Sentiment | Endurance | Social Proof | Affordability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kioxia 256GB SSD | 56.2 | 84.2 | 33.5 | 17.6 | 43.5 | 30.4 | 41.3 | 88.7 |
| Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SFYR2S/4T0 Compare | 99.5 | 99 | 91 | 92.6 | 0 | 93.6 | 87.2 | 6.3 |
| Samsung 990 PRO Compare | 93.7 | 97.4 | 99 | 78.5 | 78.8 | 86.1 | 95.4 | 20.6 |
| SanDisk WD_BLACK WDS800T2XHE Compare | 87.7 | 96.4 | 94 | 98.1 | 0 | 88.3 | 95.4 | 3.8 |
| Lexar NM1090 PRO LNM109P004T-RNNNU Compare | 98.2 | 98.5 | 97.6 | 92.6 | 0 | 75.1 | 56.8 | 9.6 |
| Team Group T-FORCE G70 PRO TM8FFH004T0C128 Compare | 92.9 | 81.1 | 94 | 92.6 | 0 | 81.9 | 41.5 | 13.9 |
Price
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