Koxia Exteria Plus G4 NVME SSD Review

Phison E31T drives are finally here and come through a dozen. Here I have Koxia Plus G4 excite and it is quite captivating. Powered by a mixture of both Koxia Flash and Phison Controller technology, is directed directly to those who are looking for a basic PCIe 5.0 drive. One that does not break the bank, but still provides. This is not the highest level Black SN8100 or similar; Instead, it is about performance, reducing the need for heat and wider compatibility with laptops, consoles and other devices that simply do not have the luxury of high air flow, just like us, humble players on the PC.

Koxia as a brand, although relatively fresh, is not recent on stage. Has a lot of history; Once, being a division in Toshiba, he was rejected as his own entity in 2018, after which he changed into Koxia the following year. At this point, Toshiba has already consumed the now defunct OZ, and the newly detected Kiostxia also raised Lite-on.

Traditionally, however, Koxia has always been perceived more as a B2B NAND manufacturer than as a direct propeller developer for us modest consumers. Over the years, he acted quite carefully with such as Western Digital and Sandisk to ensure a really unique Flash memory on PCIe drives, and Corsair from time to time dealt with him.

When his PR team pulled out a sample of a completely recent exterria plus G4 Drive, well, it was too tempting to pass. I certainly thought that if someone could make a fascinating SSD, build something to overthrow the titans who sit on our best SSD list, they were good people.

This beating heart of this thing is the most captivating addition here. Phison E31T controller. This is not the first time I tested him because we also saw him at MP700 Elite Corsaira. It is effectively based on the design of the Phison E26 controller, but with some grave changes to enhance this performance. Phison moved the production process to the lithography of TSMC 7 Nm, got rid of all the support of the DRAM cache, and also divide the total capacity in half.

Now, theoretically, it quite dramatically affects sequential speeds, but for clarity, it is a very petite part of what is now a good SSD (and honestly, it is more marketing noise than anything else after a certain point, at least in the game).

As for NAND, as you can imagine, Koxia uses its own in the form of a 218-layer BICS8 TLC. This is not as dense as some of the 276-layer things that we saw from the more premium flagship PCIe 5.0 disk, such as T705 Crucial, but it seems that this is a de facto knowledgeable choice for E31T. In fact, it is identical to the Elite MP700 Corsara. The only pursuit I have seen so far is not used P510, which instead uses (own) Micron 276-Wayer TLC.

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Other top -class statistics remain quite consistent here. You still get the same M.2 2280 coefficient, the same 5-year warranty, which is a typical strength assessment of 1200 TBW, and it is. Oh, and there is also no heat option; Cooksia will completely eliminate it. When it comes to prices, you can choose one of them for around 225 USD in the USA or 180 GBP in Great Britain.

The performance is therefore quite predictable for this. The sequences belong to a convenient 10.2 Gb/s range for reading and 8.6 Gb/s on the record; It is so faster than the MP700 elite, although it is a bit chuguly as opposed to P510 Crucial (even in 1 TB configuration). However, random 4K performance seems a bit indigent. Whatever Corsair does on the firmware side, pays dividends, because Koxia simply cannot adapt it to random 4K entries from 318 Mb/s to 336 Mb/s. Similarly, its reading speed is also much lower.

However, 3DMark tells a different story because G4 will see a grave enhance unlike MP700 Elite, a combination of SSD capacity improvement and reduced delay in these tests. Interestingly, it is faster in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers, with a decent load of 7,331 seconds in all scenes.

Temperatures, similar to the Corsiary, are simply unique for 5.0. Max temperature under a very intensive load of the first -meter, supplemented only 60 ° C. Not entirely 55 ° C, which was managed by Elite MP700, but seriously close, and there is a difference of 2 degrees at ambient temperature.

The only problem I have with this is the price. In fact, because Corsair had more time on the market, he had time to significantly adapt these prices; Currently, you can pick up the MP700 for USD 180. In contrast, exteria plus is almost $ 45 higher in the case of unrelated drive. This is a problem because it seriously increases the cost of GB in the USA. Impressively, its price in Great Britain is lower, but considering how strictly the results are between these two and how the equipment is similar, it is best to choose the one that is offered in your region.

Perhaps this is because the Elite MP700 Corsara has not been so long or that we saw how E31T has recently been abundant. Or maybe this is because epic drives, such as SN8100, have just ripped the sheet of results on what makes a good SSD a good SSD disks. But now Koxia Exteria just doesn’t seem to be enough. Although he uses his own flash, he does not provide anything more than his competitors with this controller, and taking into account the price increase, and slowly arriving on the market, it makes it difficult for me to excite. Is this a good ride? Yes, clear, it will do a job; You will not be disappointed, it’s a fact, but that’s all.

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