Kioxia SSD 256GB XG6 NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 2280 KXG60ZNV256G Solid State Drive for PS5 Dell HP Lenovo Laptop Desktop Ultrabook

I bought this NVMe drive because the price was right and I wanted to replace the SSD 2.5" I was using in my Mini PC appliance that I use for OPNsense as a home router. Faster writes to logs is important with a high traffic device like a router/firewall. It's only been a few days, but this drive performs very well, is cost effective, and exceeds my expectations. I'll try to update this with performance data soon. Let's be honest though, if you're looking at this drive, it's because you're looking for something small and cheap, and this does the job! No issues with it at all. I used clonezilla to clone my 256gb WD blue 2.5" SSD and it performs beautifully. The WD blue, despite being 256GB, was actually only 250GB. This is 256GB, which means I had no problem cloning my ZFS vdevs to it (ZFS partitions can't be shrunk, so I would have needed to do a new install of this drive was even 1mb too small). Worth the price!

So far this 256GB M.2 nvme ssd checks all the boxes. It's not crazy large, but it does have great value. I bought two of these to put in off lease Dell 400 G5 SFF pcs that were both using a Dell enterprise 2.5" HDDs. No more spindle noise with solid state! I was surprised at the high speeds for sequential read/write, and I guess an NVME device will lend itself to better performance. I'll come back if there are any reliability issues/concerns, but I don't expect any given that this is a Toshiba device (though they've rebranded to Kioxia). In my experience their memory has always been as reliable as the best in class.

Seem to have troubles cloning the drives however, with a fresh install of windows 10 it works fine.

Great savings with used.

good quality and speed!