Kioxia Introduces New Generation of Data Center SSDs with PCIe 5.0 Interface

Kioxia introduces new SSDs with PCIe 5.0 interface, targeting enterprise servers and hyperscale data centers. The Kioxia CD8 series offers sequential read and write speeds of 7.2GB/s and 6.0GB/s.

Kioxia announces the new SSDs in a 2.5″ form factor with a height of 15mm. Random read and write speeds are 1.25 million and 200,000 iops respectively. Those speeds are achievable across two PCIe 5.0 lanes; Kioxia did the same with its existing CD7 PCIe 5.0 SSDs, which means customers can place more SSDs in a system compared to four-lane SSDs.The new CD8 SSDs also feature TLC NAND memory.

The SSDs come in variants from 960GB to 15.36TB with an endurance rating of 1 dwpd. This means that users can fill the full capacity of the SSD once a day for the lifetime of the drive. For more intensive use, Kioxia also offers configurations with an endurance of 3 dwpd. These are available in variants with 800GB to 12.8TB of storage capacity.

In addition to the new generation of SSDs, Kioxia also announces a expansion of his factory in Japan. It concerns a new production line for Kioxias BiCS flash memory. Construction will begin in April 2022 and the plant is to be completed in 2023.