Kioxia delivers PCIe 4.0 solid state drives
The line-up of PCIe 4.0 NVMeTM enterprise and data centre solid state drives (SSDs) from Kioxia Europe GmbH (formerly Toshiba Memory Europe GmbH) is now shipping to customers.
PCI Express 4.0 was designed to enable doubling the performance of client, server and storage systems, pushing speeds up to 16.0GT/s (gigatransfers per second throughput per lane), driving new performance levels for cloud and enterprise applications.
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 are said to 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 two times over its PCIe 3.0 predecessors and are said to be 12 times 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.
Kioxia’s CD6 Series of PCIe 4.0, Gen4 4lane and NVMe 1.4 data centre SSDs are single-ported for servers, and targeted to hyperscale data centre 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[6] devices, and include a range of security and encryption options. 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.
“As established leader in developing PCIe 4.0 NVMe Express SSDs, Kioxia continues to push the limits of flash storage performance”, said Paul Rowan, vice-president SSD marketing and 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.”
