After formatting the 2TB drive, users will get around 1.86TB of free space.

Passing to the well-known CrystalDiskInfo, we can view also similar information. The drive was connected to a PCIe Gen 4.0 slot and was running at PCIe 4.0 x4.0 speed.

KIOXIA offers their SSD software SSDUtility_6.0.22_Windows which can be downloaded for free from the KIOXIA support website. The software recognized our KIOXIA Exceria Pro 2TB model and will give some quick information about the installed firmware, health, and SSD Sensor temperature.

By default, this series initializes 64MB of memory buffer for reading/writing operations to help up with the overall performance of the drive.

There are also more tabs and sections, like SSD Details

SMART Information

You can update the firmware either from the Web or locally.

under settings you can set auto start with Windows. Under help, you can save a system summary to send to technical support for further investigation, in case of an issue. As a last note, the KIOXIA drive now doesn't offer over-provisioning that the previous v5.xx build included.