At first, we would like to thank KIOXIA for sending us a sample of the XG6-P 2TB SSD for testing and reviewing.

 

 

 

About KIOXIA:

 

“KIOXIA Europe GmbH (formerly Toshiba Memory Europe GmbH) is the European subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation, a leading worldwide supplier of flash memory, solid state drives (SSDs) and software solutions. We are uniquely positioned with our broad product range to enable our customers to really drive their storage transformation. By working together with our customers across all growing markets like mobile, edge, cloud, data center and automotive, we provide our leading memory technology and are able to help accelerate the development of transformational solutions that really add value to end-users, creating new ways for them to interact and benefit from this technology, and create uplifting experiences that ultimately help to change the world.

From the invention of flash memory in 1984 to today’s breakthrough BiCS FLASH 3D technology, KIOXIA continues to move the industry forward and has carved out a path to a new era. Whatever the digital future demands, we will keep developing the right solutions for our customers.

KIOXIA Europe GmbH maintains offices in Germany, France, Spain and Sweden.”

 

Product Features:

Key Features

KIOXIA’s 96-Layer BiCS FLASH™

PCIe® Gen3 x4, NVMe™

Capacity: 2,048 GB

M.2 2280 Single-sided

TCG OPAL 2.01 Optional for SED

 

Applications

Workstation PCs

High-End PCs

Video/CG contents production

AI/Machine learning

 

Product Specifications:

Capacity: 2,048 GB

Connector Type: M.2 M

Interface: PCIe® Gen3 x4, NVMe™ 1.3a

Flash Memory Type: BiCS FLASH™ TLC

Sequential Read: 3,180 MB/s

Sequential Write: 2,920 MB/s

MTTF: 1,500,000 hours

Supply Voltage: 3.3 V ± 5 %

Power Consumption (Active): 4.9 W typ.

Power Consumption (L1.2 mode): 3 mW typ.

Height: 2.23 mm

Width: 22 mm

Length: 80 mm

Weight: 7.3 g typ.

Temperature (Operating): 0 ~ 95 °C (Controller Temperature)

Temperature (Operating): 0 ~ 85 °C (Other Components Temperature)

Temperature (Non-operating): -40 ~ 85 °C

Shock (Operating/Non-operating): 14.7 km/s2 {1500 G} (0.5 ms)

 

KIOXIA has sent us one sample of their XG6-P SSD series, which is mainly used in the OEM market. The P at the end of the product naming is added only with the 2TB model, the rest of capacities carrying the XG6 naming. The XG6 series of products comes with Toshiba’s 96L BiCS4 3D TLC NAND packages and a Toshiba-made controller with 8 channels.

 

Since we are dealing with an OEM product, there is no retail packaging; the drive has arrived as bulk and on the frontal area of the PCB we did note a large sticker, housing the product code name, firmware code name, the manufacturing date, the power rating and more!

 

 

 

On the back side we did not spot any additional components, making this SKU single-sided:

 

 

 

The SSD comes with a DRAM IC for caching purposes, a central Toshiba controller but also two NAND packages (1TB capacity each):

 

 

 

The DRAM used on the XG6-P was manufactured by Nanya and carries the model number

NT6CL512T32AM-H1, it is of DDR3L type and is designed to run at 1866MHz (2GB capacity):

 

 

 

The TC58NCP090GSD 8-channel controller can be found nearby. It is communicating with the host computer over a PCIe 3.1a x4 interface with the NVMe 1.3a protocol:

 

 

 

The two TH58LJT3X24BAEG 96L BiCS4 3D TLC NAND packages are next:

 

 

 

Test Bench:

 

CPU: Intel I5 9700K Retail

CPU Cooler: Deepcool Captain 240 EX RGB AIO

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

RAM: Patriot Memory Viper RGB Series DDR4

Video: KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6GB

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: OCZ Vector 150

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

 

 

The drive has arrived unformatted; we did proceed with the usual steps in order to format it as NTFS:

 

 

With the help of AIDA64, we could extract more information regarding the drive:

 

 

The Tests

 

HDTach Short Test

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HDTach Long Test

 

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CrystalMark HDD Test Suite

 

AIDA64 Disk Test Suite

 

PCMark05 HDD Test Suite

 

 

PCMark 8

 

HDTune Test Suite

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PCMark Vantage HDD Test Suite

 

PCMark 7

 

Anvil [Read]

Anvil [Write]

 

Extra Tests:

 

AS SSD Benchmark

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AS SSD Benchmark (IOPS)

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ATTO Disk Benchmark

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CrystalDiskMark

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The Tests

 

HDTach Short Test

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HDTach Long Test

 

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CrystalMark HDD Test Suite

 

AIDA64 Disk Test Suite

 

PCMark05 HDD Test Suite

 

 

PCMark 8

 

HDTune Test Suite

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PCMark Vantage HDD Test Suite

 

PCMark 7

 

Anvil [Read]

 

Anvil [Write]

 

Extra Tests:

 

AS SSD Benchmark

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AS SSD Benchmark (IOPS)

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ATTO Disk Benchmark

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CrystalDiskMark

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By incorporating Toshiba’s 96L BiCS4 3D TLC NAND, the TC58NCP090GSD 8-channel controller and RAM cache for storing the mapping tables, Kioxia has built a well-performing M.2 SSD on the PCIe 3.1a bus, while offering enough storage for most applications. This model is mainly used in OEM, workstation systems for handling tough situations like tons of security software, Bitlocker and without a capable drive, the system will get slow fast, even when using a latest-gen CPU.

 

The drive does not have a TBW rating, but a MTTF reliability rating, which is 1500000 hours, which translates in an insane number of 62500 days. In terms of security, the drive comes with TCG Pyrite version 1.

 

Given the reliability numbers and performance, we think that the 410 Euro value on the market is justified.

KIOXIA XG6-P Series 2TB SSD is Recommended for:

 

 

We would like to thank again to KIOXIA for making this review possible!