Last week, Kioxia rounded out their lineup of PCIe 4.Zero enterprise and datacenter SSDs with the announcement of the XD6. Now, they’re bringing PCIe 4.Zero help to their shopper NVMe product line with the brand new XG7 and XG7-P M.2 NVMe SSDs. The XG7 household doubles the sequential learn velocity and will increase sequential write velocity by 60% in comparison with the XG6 sequence, due to the PCIe 4.Zero help and a brand new SSD controller. Based on XG6 specs, this needs to be a minimum of 6.3GB/s reads and 4.6GB/s writes for the XG7. That’s might not be fairly quick sufficient for high-end shopper SSDs offered at retail, however for an OEM-only shopper SSD it is nonetheless extraordinarily quick.
For the primary time, Kioxia (previously Toshiba Memory) is introducing the upper efficiency/larger capability -P fashions similtaneously the bottom fashions of their XG sequence. The XG7 will probably be accessible in capacities from 256GB to 1TB, and the XG7-P will supply 2TB and 4TB capacities. This probably makes the XG7-P the primary shopper OEM SSD so as to add a 4TB NVMe possibility.
Full efficiency specs for the XG7(-P) household haven’t but been introduced, however when it comes to options Kioxia is implementing NVMe 1.Four help and TCG Opal and TCG Pyrite safety choices. The XG7 and XG7-P will begin showing in pre-built programs in 2021. Unlike the previous two generations, we’re not getting overview samples of the XG7, so we’ll have to attend till subsequent yr to get first-hand expertise with Kioxia’s PCIe 4.Zero answer.
