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.

Although not as aesthetically pleasing, they kinda look like bacon strips, they work as advertised. I used mine to keep my windows 11 boot drive untouched while installing Elementary OS Linux on this one. Works exactly as expected!

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

Great savings with used.

I bought one for child light gaming then hardware failure occurred in 2 weeks, the US warranty support referred me to contact Europe! I heard nothing back then returned to Amazon. Bought a second one new but it's actually used with a Windows image in it. This time I attached heat sink on both sides to see how long it will go.

Fast shipping, works perfectly, but it didn't came in the original box, just a antistatic bag, it seams like was used but for the price is ok

Be aware of what you're getting here. These are pulls from most likely laptop upgrades. The two drives I got had between 60-80GB data read/written on them and 2-4 hours of use. They may have had a windows partition on them; I didn't look. I used these for two Linux machines I was building so I just pulled the smart data and then formatted them. I assumed these were lightly used drives when I bought them so I'm totally happy with what I got for the price.