KIOXIA UNVEILS 2ND GENERATION 24G SAS SSD, FOCUSING ON PERFORMANCE, SECURITY

KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation has announced that its KIOXIA PM7 Series of enterprise SAS SSDs are now available for customer evaluation.

Targeted at enterprise applications and use cases – including high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, caching layer, and financial trading and analysis – the new drives bring improved performance, reliability and security to enterprise servers and storage.

With emphasis on security, the PM7 Series is FIPS 140-2 certified and currently under test for FIPS 140-3 certification, according to a statement.

Designed for modern IT infrastructures, 24G SAS (SAS-4) doubles effective bandwidth over 12Gb/s SAS (SAS-3).

Featuring Kioxia’s 5th generation BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory, the PM7 Series delivers sequential read performance of up 4.2Gigabytes (GB) per second (GB/s) and 720K random read IOPS, achieving approximately 20 per cent performance improvement over the previous generation KIOXIA PM6 Series.

The new Kioxia drives are available in capacities up to 30.72terabytes (TB), making them the industry’s highest capacity 2.5-inch SAS SSD.

Additional features include dual-port to support redundancy for storage systems that require high reliability; and, Flash Die Failure Protection – a Kioxia feature that allows for transparent disabling of a failing flash chip, while maintaining full reliability at the SSD level.

Kioxia is a world leader in memory solutions, dedicated to the development, production and sale of flash memory and solid-state drives (SSDs).

-- BERNAMA