Kioxia unveils 2nd generation SSDs for enterprise, hyperscale data centres

KIOXIA CD8 Series: 2nd Generation SSDs Designed with PCIe® 5.0 Technology for Enterprise and Hyperscale Data Centers (Photo: Business Wire)

KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 -- The first vendor to offer a drive designed with PCIe® 5.0 interface technology, Kioxia Corporation has announced it has built on this achievement by introducing its 2nd generation SSDs.

The company’s new KIOXIA CD8 Series data center NVMe™ SSDs (CD8 Series) are optimised for hyperscale data centre and enterprise server-attached workloads, and utilise PCIe 5.0 interface technology, which doubles the bandwidth over PCIe 4.0 from 16 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) to 32GT/s.

The CD8 Series is now available for customer evaluation, according to a statement.

Based on Kioxia’s 5th generation BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory technology, the CD8 Series utilises a proprietary Kioxia controller and firmware, which can be customised to customer needs, and is housed in a 2.5-inch, 15mm Z-height form factor.

The new drives are designed to the PCIe 5.0, Open Compute Project (OCP) Datacenter NVMe SSD 2.0 and NVMe 1.4 specifications, and are well-suited to applications and use cases that include high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, caching layer, financial trading and analysis.

Additional features include read-intensive 1DWPD (Drive Write Per Day) endurance models targeted for hyperscale and server-centric workloads, in capacities from 960GB to 15.36TB; and, mixed-used 3DWPD endurance targeted models are available, in capacities from 800GB to 12.8TB.

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

-- BERNAMA