New Price drop 9%
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
Price $50
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 | Crucial T500 | Kingston NV3 SNV3SM3/2T0 | Corsair MP600 Elite | Team Group MP44L | SanDisk Optimus GX 7100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 256GB | 1TB | 2TB | 1TB | 500GB | 500GB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2230 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Seq Read | 3,050 MB/s | 7,300 MB/s | 6,000 MB/s | 7,000 MB/s | 5,000 MB/s | 6,800 MB/s |
| Nand Type | - | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC |
| Dram Cache | - | true | - | false | false | false |
| Endurance | - | 600 TBW | 640 TBW | 1200 TBW | 160 TBW | 300 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 |
| Crucial T500 Compare | 91.4 | 96.7 | 99 | 55.3 | 94.6 | 83.1 | 95.4 | 56.5 |
| Kingston NV3 SNV3SM3/2T0 Compare | 77.7 | 61.7 | 53.8 | 78.5 | 78.8 | 69.8 | 87.2 | 22.7 |
| Corsair MP600 Elite Compare | 84.1 | 61.7 | 53.8 | 55.3 | 0 | 93.8 | 95.4 | 58.4 |
| Team Group MP44L Compare | 71.1 | 86.7 | 79 | 26.7 | 94.6 | 69.1 | 87.2 | 74.1 |
| SanDisk Optimus GX 7100 Compare | 80.4 | 93.9 | 53.8 | 26.7 | 78.8 | 88.3 | 49.8 | 72.6 |
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