KIOXIA EXCERIA G3 2TB M.2 2280 NVMe SSD, PCIe 5.0 x4, up to 10,000 MB/s read, BiCS FLASH QLC

The KIOXIA EXCERIA G3 2TB (LVC10Z002TG8) is an M.2 2280 NVMe SSD on PCIe 5.0 x4 that reads at up to 10,000 MB/s and writes at up to 9,600 MB/s, made for gamers and builders with a PCIe 5.0 platform who want Gen5 read speed at a mainstream price.

EXCERIA G3 brings PCIe 5.0 to KIOXIA’s mainstream range: QLC flash with Host Memory Buffer support delivers 10,000 MB/s sequential reads without flagship pricing.

• 1 × KIOXIA EXCERIA G3 2TB M.2 2280 NVMe SSD (LVC10Z002TG8)
• KIOXIA does not list screws, a heatsink or cloning software in the box — use the M.2 screw or latch of your motherboard or laptop
• KIOXIA SSD Utility (health, firmware, monitoring) is a free download from the KIOXIA website

• Windows boots, games and large projects load noticeably faster than from a PCIe 4.0 drive when the slot is Gen5; 10,000 MB/s is the sequential read rating, random performance is 1,600,000 / 1,450,000 IOPS.
• 1,200 TB TBW endurance: that is about 660 GB written every day for five years before the warranty's write limit is reached.
• Single-sided 2.38 mm design fits slim laptops and boards with M.2 shields; 6.4 W typical active power — Gen5 drives run warm, so airflow or a heatsink keeps speeds stable.
• It uses QLC NAND: great value per GB for games and libraries, but KIOXIA does not publish the speed after the write cache fills, so constant multi-hundred-GB writes are a job for a TLC drive.

• SATA-only M.2 slots (B+M key SATA) — the drive is NVMe and will not be detected
• M.2 slots limited to 2230 or 2242 length — this is a full 80 mm 2280 drive
• Gen5 speeds in a PCIe 4.0 or 3.0 slot — it falls back to the slot speed
• Systems without NVMe boot support (very old BIOS) — usable as a data drive only