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Kioxia’s Latest XD8 Series Intended For Cloud, Hyperscale Environments

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, has announced the availability of its new KIOXIA XD8 Series PCIe 5.0 Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E1.S solid-state drives (SSDs).

According to Kioxia in a statement, the new drives are the company’s third generation of E1.S SSDs and are compliant with PCIe 5.0 (32 GT/s x 4) and NVMe 2.0 specifications, as well as supporting the Open Compute Project (OCP) Datacenter NVMe SSD v2.5 specification.

Designed for cloud and hyperscale environments, the KIOXIA XD8 Series meets the growing demand for higher performance, enhanced efficiency, and greater scalability in data centres.

The new drives empower cloud providers and hyperscalers to optimise their infrastructure, delivering superior performance while maintaining operational efficiency.

Available in capacities of 1.92, 3.84 and 7.68 terabytes (TB), KIOXIA XD8 Series evaluation drives are now sampling to select customers.

In addition, KIOXIA XD8 Series also features additional NVMe support including NVM Express Management Interface (NVMe-MI) v1.2c; sequential read performance up to 12,500 megabytes (MB) per second; and sequential write performance up to 5,800 MB per second.

-- BERNAMA