Kioxia delivers PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drives

Kioxia Europe GmbH (formerly Toshiba Memory Europe GmbH), has announced that its line-up of PCIe® 4.0 NVMeTM enterprise and data center solid state drives (SSDs) are now shipping to customers.

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As established leader in developing PCIe® 4.0 NVMe Express SSDs, Kioxia continues to push the limits of flash storage performance”, said Paul Rowan, VP SSD Marketing & Engineering at Kioxia Europe GmbH. “We were the first company to publicly demonstrate PCIe® 4.0 SSDs, and are now the first to commence shipment of these next-generation drives.

 

CM6 Series Enterprise NVMe SSDs

Dual-ported for high-availability, Kioxia’s CM6 Series of PCIe® 4.0, Gen4 4lane (or Dual-port, 2lane), and NVMe™ 1.4 Enterprise SSDs deliver best-in-class sequential and random read/write performance of up to 6.9 GB/s and up to 1.4M IOPS. These represent improvements of up to 2x over its PCIe® 3.0 predecessors and are 12x faster than typical SATA drives. Designed for enterprise applications and use cases – including high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, caching layer, financial trading and data analytics – the CM6 Series is available in capacities of up to 30.72TB.

 

CD6 Series Data Center NVMe SSDs

Kioxia’s CD6 Series of PCIe® 4.0, Gen4 4lane and NVMe™ 1.4 data center SSDs are single-ported for servers, and targeted to hyperscale data center and general purpose applications, such as database, cloud/container environments, web servers and media streaming. The CD6 Series will be available in capacities of up to 15.36TB, with up to 6.2GB/s throughput and 1.0 M IOPS random access performance.

 

Both, the CM6 and CD6 Series have a lineup of 1 DWPD (Drive Write per Day) and 3 DWPD devices, and include a broad range of security/encryption options. Also, the new SSDs have successfully passed PCI-SIG Workshop compliance and are on the UNH-IOL Integrator’s list for NVMe™ 1.4 device compatibility.

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