Upgrade your game and productivity with KIOXIA’s solid-state drives

Shopping for a new solid-state drive (or more commonly known as SSD), either as an upgrade or a replacement, is a war between excitement and dread. With so many options for a better and faster drive, how do you know you are paying for the right one? That entry-level SSD seems great for the budget conscious, but is it fast enough for heavy creative works or gaming? A high-end speedy SSD may make your load times faster, but are you paying far more than what you need? It’s a tough decision even for savvy buyers. Luckily for us, KIOXIA has a diverse lineup to address different user needs.

But first, a little trivia.

Contrary to what you might be thinking, KIOXIA isn’t an unknown player in the tech industry. It’s actually a Japan-headquartered memory maker that was formerly known as Toshiba Memory – itself spun off from the Toshiba conglomerate. Apart from the name change, it’s still business as usual for KIOXIA. That is, making high quality and stable solid-state drives, which are made from in-house NAND chips from Japan.

Let’s have a look at what they have to offer.

EXCERIA SATA SSD: A hassle-free upgrade to your current hard disk drives

Upgrading from a traditional hard disk drive (or HDD) should be easy and affordable and that’s where the EXCERIA SATA SSD series come in. Designed to boost the speed of your desktop or notebook PC over conventional HDDs, the EXCERIA SATA SSD series leverages BiCS FLASH, to deliver a well-balanced performance, reliability, and value that will transform your desktop or mobile system.

These EXCERIA SATA SSDs have a rated Max Sequential Read/Write Speed of 555/540MB/s, and Max Random Read/Write Speed of up to 82,000/88,000IOPS. That counts for something, as these are quicker than some of the competing SATA SSDs out there.

Available in 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB capacities, the EXCERIA SATA SSD series is the perfect choice not only as a replacement for your slow and cranky HDD, but also for PC enthusiasts looking to expand their existing SSD storage capacity with something affordable.

You can get them from KIOXIA's official e-store partner here.

EXCERIA NVMe SSD: A reliable and fast performing entry-level NVMe SSD

Looking for something more? The EXCERIA NVMe SSD series come in a slim and light M.2 2280 form factor, which plugs directly into thin notebooks’ or a desktop’s motherboard. M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs are the storage of choice for most modern computers today, as it's far smaller than SATA SSD drives and reduces additional cable clutter for a sleeker and an easy system upgrade.

There are also performance benefits with using an NVMe-based solid-state drive too, as the direct connection between it and the motherboard (no SATA cable, remember?) using a faster PCIe based interface reduces latency in your system’s I/O path between the SSD and the CPU, resulting in a smooth and responsive performance. The EXCERIA NVMe SSD, for instance, have a Max Sequential Read/Write Speed of 1,700/1,600MB/s. For comparison's sake, that’s nearly three times faster than the SATA SSD option. 

The EXCERIA NVMe SSD series offers up to 1TB of capacity, with 250GB and 500GB options available as well, and is an excellent choice for day-to-day work productivity tasks including gaming. Just be sure your system or notebook has an M.2 2280 NVMe SSD slot to take advantage of.

You can get them from KIOXIA's official e-store partner here.

EXCERIA NVME Plus SSD: Without question, the choice for hardcore gamers or power users

The cream of KIOXIA’s crop, the EXCERIA NVME Plus SSD series may look like the vanilla EXCERIA NVME at a glance. But on the inside, this SSD is all about fast speed and capacity in one form factor. If you’re looking for a high-performance storage drive to match up with your high-performance gaming system, look nowhere else.

The EXCERIA NVME Plus is built to deliver enthusiast-class performance thanks to a newly designed 8-channel controller that brings out the full potential of its BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory. We are talking about a Max Sequential Read/Write Speed of 3,400/3,200MB/s, which is literally twice the speed of its entry-level sibling mentioned above. This means your Windows 10 will boot up quicker, that Photoshop file will load faster, and you will no longer have the opportunity to go make a cup of coffee while waiting for the infamously long loading screens on The Witcher: Wild Hunt game.

The new enthusiast-class EXCERIA NVMe Plus SSD series also offers the largest capacity choices from KIOXIA’s entire consumer-level SSD line-up, with 500GB, 1TB and even a staggering 2TB available.

You can get them from KIOXIA's official e-store partner here.
 

But that’s not it.

All EXCERIA SSDs also comes with the SSD Utility Management Software, which gives you a comprehensive real-time overview of the SSD’s system status, capacity, health, updates and more. It also comes with a Health Monitor that allows you to check how much life is left in your EXCERIA SSD (because really, nothing lasts forever) and if it’s set in a correct mode to achieve its optimum performance.
 

Find out more at https://personal.kioxia.com/en-apac/ssd.html