KIOXIA PCIe 4.0 Enterprise NVMe SSDs Take Storage

KIOXIA America, Inc. (previously Toshiba Memory America, Inc.), the U.S.-based subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation, right now introduced that its lineup of PCIe 4.Zero NVMeTM enterprise stable state drives (SSDs) has achieved PCI-SIG compliance for PCIe 4.Zero and University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) certification. KIOXIA’s CM6 Series efficiently handed interoperability assessments on the August 2019 PCI-SIG Compliance Workshop – the primary workshop to incorporate official PCIe 4.Zero specification assessments. KIOXIA America might be readily available at Supercomputing 2019 later this month to showcase new ranges of flash efficiency enabled by its CM6 Series SSDs.

The first firm to publicly display PCIe 4.Zero SSDs, KIOXIA has established itself as a pacesetter in growing PCIe 4.Zero NVM Express SSDs and continues to push the bounds of flash storage efficiency. The CM6 Series brings deliberate efficiency enhancements of 3x over its PCIe 3.Zero predecessors and is 12x sooner than SATA drives. KIOXIA’s lineup of Gen4 PCIe SSDs additionally contains the CD6 Series, which is focused to cloud and scale-out environments.

Key Features:

• Utilizes KIOXIA’s 96-layer BiCS FLASH 3D flash reminiscence
• PCIe 2×2 or 1×4 lane configuration choices
• Targeted switch charges as much as 6,900 MB/s
• Supports SFF-TA-1001 (often known as U.3) operation with Universal Backplanes for simplified buyer use with SAS, SATA and NVMe SSDs

KIOXIA was at Microsoft Ignite earlier this month to display the CM6 Series working in a Microsoft Azure hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform with Quanta Cloud Technologies – and enabling 2x efficiency positive factors over a PCIe 3.Zero resolution. “We were able to show that our CM6 Series SSDs are capable of pushing SSD sequential read performance to over 55 gigabytes per second (GB/s) across eight drives – nearly 7 GB/s per SSD – and we’re not done yet. KIOXIA will continue to push the performance envelope for our customers,” famous Alvaro Toledo, vp of SSD advertising and product planning for KIOXIA America, Inc.

PCI-SIG hosts Compliance Workshops a number of occasions a 12 months in numerous areas worldwide, giving members the chance to check and validate their merchandise earlier than getting into the sphere. Compliance testing is accomplished in opposition to each PCI-SIG maintained techniques and different main producers of PCI merchandise. As the main testing and certification lab for NVMe expertise and software program, the UNH-IOL supplies conformance and interoperability testing throughout numerous working techniques, drivers, and {hardware} platforms, in addition to PCIe SSDs and PCIe-enabled servers. “The SSD market is quickly moving to NVM Express technology, and standards compliance is critical to ensure smooth adoption,” added Toledo.