Kioxia releases its first pcie 4.0 ssd up to 30 tb

Kioxia announced the launch of the industry's first PCIe 4.0 SSDs for business with availability scheduled for March 2020. The new SSDs, up to 30TB, provide up to 6.9 GBps of throughput and can produce 1.4 million of random IOPS each.

Kioxia Releases Its First PCIe 4.0 SSD Up To 30TB

While AMD's EPYC Rome platform has a distinct connectivity advantage over Intel platforms with support for PCIe 4.0, providing twice the performance of the PCIe 3.0 interface on Intel platforms, current PCIe 4.0 SSDs are only designed for consumer use, which means that they are not supported by business-critical features such as power loss protection or dual parity schemes that prevent data loss or advanced encryption.

Kioxia fixes that problem with its new CD6 and CM6 SSDs, but they also bring amazing performance. Designed to deliver maximum business performance, the CM6 features an 18-channel SSD controller that ejects up to 1.4 million random read IOPS and 170, 000 random write IOPS with a capacity of up to 30TB. As usual, performance varies based on capacity. Sequential performance has impressive read / write performance of 6.9 / 4GBps.

Kioxia CD6 uses a 16-channel controller with 6.2 / 4 GBps peak read / write throughput and 1 million / 750.00 random read / write IOPS.

The units make use of 96-layer BICS4 TLC flash technology and are also the first to support the U.3 interface and NVMe 1.4 protocol. Will we see commercial SSDs up to 30TB soon? We will keep you informed.

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