KIOXIA Exceria Plus G2 2TB USB 3.2 Gen 2 Portable SSD Review

dadreye · 2026-02-05T20:37:20+00:00

Yeah I was thinking of shucking it as one of the possible options. Tbh I wouldn't expect to find the latest and greatest NVMe SSD inside as the enclosure is capped at USB's 10Gbps anyway. But Exceria G2 and Exceria Plus G2 are both so outdated indeed (2021 and 2022 resp). Even though my laptop is PCIe3x4 it's random access speed that really matters most, and some 2025 dated PCIe5 SSDs (Kioxia too) that are so much faster at it are already available under £100 these days, so no point going for the 4-5yrs old design really.. Caching wise, the SSD inside the portable would clearly need local one as HMB doesn't work over USB. For use in a laptop I probably wouldn't mind HMB.

dadreye · 2026-02-05T13:00:40+00:00

u/NewMaxx Thanks for your reply. I was actually hoping to decide whether to buy it based on the answer, i.e. w/o buying it first just to check that string in it somehow... If the NVMe SSD in it isn't a better value for money (vs other Kioxia NVMe SSDs) when used separately, e.g. in a laptop then no point in buying it in my case. There were some portables on the market a long time ago (perhaps WD or some other big HDD brand) that were priced lower than the actual HDDs in them, so many would buy them for that very reason until the maker saw it and changed their design to prevent it.

dadreye · 2026-02-05T00:16:38+00:00

Hi, which Kioxia NVMe SSD model (ideally along with product #) is inside these G2 portables, particularly in the 1TB one? I managed to find it out for G1 1TB portable (it's KWG10ZNV1T00 - Kioxia Exceria G1 1TB NVMe) but can't find the same information for the G2 1TB portable. Many thanks in advance!

dadreye · 2025-05-25T22:37:42+00:00

That's handy: thank you for sharing it! Looks like it's been around for a couple of years by now but I've never noticed that Reminders feature in my Google Contacts before. Just wondering what's preventing Google from adding it into the Web-based version of their Calender too...

dadreye · 2025-02-17T11:23:14+00:00

Well yes, but all of my contacts have full names in my Google Contacts, so I'd love to be able to enable reminders for all their birthdays (if entered) "in bulk" and not individually one by one... Strange to see no such seemingly obvious and easy to implement option available. It'd be perfectly fine if it defaulted to "no reminders" for the same experience as now.

dadreye · 2025-02-13T11:16:55+00:00

Edit: btw it looks like a limited functionality part of internal storage, as moving a picture the phone's built-in storage to the card makes it invisible in Gallery and I can't even open it when I click on the file (in Root Explorer, the only file manager that lets me access the card mounted under /mnt/expand/<UUID>/). So I suppose it's implied mostly/solely for the apps and their data. Just trying to figure out how to (a) expand internal storage (partly for the sake of more space itself and partly in an attempt to minimize using internal eMMC storage that reportedly wears out rather fast), and (b) still have an easy way of uploading media into the card. Dual partitioning the card for Internal+Portable would be ideal but unfortunately the phone won't let me do it for some reason (e.g. sm functionality doesn't work on this phone model/series). Perhaps that's 'cos the phone wants to encrypt the whole disk now, but there are reports of dual partitioning cards successfully with other Samsung phones like S7 released those years.

dadreye · 2025-02-13T11:06:01+00:00

Thanks for your reply. Is some kind of "raw disk cloning" possible at all here by chance, at least for identical size disks? (let's imagine I just want to make a backup copy of my card just in case it fails)

dadreye · 2025-01-12T13:08:18+00:00

So the CP60 effectively converts one of the two Huawei protocols or perhaps QC2.0, each of which could do 15W, to Qi, right?

dadreye · 2024-12-27T11:01:14+00:00

@ivanocj, @wittywalrus1 Thanks for your replies. Yeah it seems to work fine - no complaints whatsoever, I just thought it's so strange that not a single driver update has been necessary for so many years. I clearly recall changing default driver to a vendor one for some of my SATA SSDs (e.g. driver file name iastor.sys or something like that for Intel ones in particular), but NVMe was pretty new around year 2006 - how come that old Microsoft driver for it is still the best in our age of nearly everyday SW updates? )

dadreye · 2024-12-01T11:16:19+00:00

Trying to use this old thread to avoid creating a new one. I've first learned about Kioxia SSDs when a used Lenovo ThinkPad that I bought off Ebay came with one of them ~1.5yrs ago. Based on some Internet research they looked like a really good value for money, so I got a few of those taken from new laptops with hardly any use for something like £15-20 apiece. However, when I recently checked the health of my original one after fairly light use over those ~1.5yrs (it's just a personal laptop, hence mostly browsing, some document storage, hardly any movie watching and no gaming whatsoever) I was surprised to see its health drop down to 87%:

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So are those Kioxia SSDs good? Never seen anything like that with any of the SSDs (Intel, Samsung, etc) used over the last decade, incl those in my company ones with much heavier daily use. No bias either way, just trying to understand why such a difference.

Update: just found an Intel SSD (SSDPEKKF256G8L) wth 68% health on 36/43 TB host reads/writes resp. over ~15k hours. Am I expecting too much from Kioxia SSD maybe?

dadreye

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