Kioxia has kept things simple with the packaging of EXCERIA PRO and it arrives in a small, nicely designed box which states the estimated speed, capacity and form factor of this drive. Inside, all that accompanies the drive is some documentation.


EXCERIA PRO conforms to the M.2 form factor and more specifically the 2280 size, there is no heatsink or RGB lighting with this drive – it is simple as is.

EXCERIA PRO uses Toshiba TC58NC1210GSE-00-BB Rebranded Phison E18 controller which is DRAM-less. This drive also lends itself to using 176-layer TLC 3D Flash.

Over the next pages we’ll be putting the EXCERIA PRO under examination to see what you can expect in terms of performance.