KIOXIA Introduces CD8 Series Data Center NVMe SSD With PCIe 5.0 Technology
KIOXIA America, Inc., today announced that it is sampling its 2nd generation PCIe® 5.0 SSD for enterprise and data center customers. After being the first vendor to offer a drive using the PCIe 5.0 interface, KIOXIA has now introduced the new CD8 Series data center NVMe™ SSD family. CD8 SSDs double the bandwidth per lane over PCIe 4.0 SSDs from 16 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) to 32GT/s and are optimized for hyperscale data center and enterprise server-attached workloads.
“Today, PCIe 4.0 SSDs are considered at the forefront in terms of delivering the highest levels of drive performance,” commented Greg Wong, founder and principal analyst, Forward Insights. “Next generation PCIe 5.0 SSDs provide twice the level of performance, and will continue to propel the PCIe/NVMe SSD market - which is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 20% out to 2026.”
Based on the KIOXIA 5th generation BiCS FLASH™ TLC 3D flash memory technology, the CD8 Series’ 7th generation enterprise SSD design utilizes a proprietary KIOXIA controller and firmware in a 2.5-inch2, 15mm Z-height form factor. The new drives are designed to the PCIe 5.0®, Open Compute Project (OCP) Datacenter NVMe SSD and NVMe 1.4 specifications, and are well-suited to applications and use cases that include high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, caching layer, content streaming, and financial trading and analysis.
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