PCIe 5.0 (Gen 5) has settled into the flash world very nicely and turn out to be the usual previously 12 months plus, as has SSD growing capability factors, endurance and energy effectivity. We now have spoken loads of KIOXIA’s latest award profitable Gen 5 LC9 with its 245TB capability, nonetheless reaching nice efficiency of 12GB/s throughput and over 1 million IOPS for a QLC SSD.
That is solely the tip of the iceburg for KIOXIA and, as a lot as I want I may, there may be merely no solution to cowl all offered of their exhibit at Flash Reminiscence Summit in San Jose this week. So… Let’s merely consider a couple of current Gen 5 additions; the CM9 and CD9P SSDs. And an enormous due to Cameron Brett, KIOXIA Sr. Director of Enterprise and Cloud Storage Advertising and marketing, for taking the time to present us a private tour.
KIOXIA GEN 5 CM9 ENTERPRISE SSD SERIES
The KIOXIA CM9 is a PCIe 5.0 enterprise SSD designed for issues equivalent to AI, large knowledge/analytics, monetary buying and selling and lots of different such duties the place learn or blended use intensive duties are key. This SSD is offered in capacities as much as 61TB within the 15mm 2.5″ kind issue, in addition to 30TB within the E3.S kind issue. Its efficiency speaks to as much as 14.8GB/s learn and 11GB/s write with as much as an unimaginable 3.4 million IOPS.
The CM9 affords as much as a learn intensive one drive write per day (DWPD) endurance or three DWPD for blended use. This SSD is KIOXIA proprietary in that it includes of KIOXIA controller, firmware and BiCS 8 3D NAND flash reminiscence which makes use of their latest CBA know-how. The distinction between this SSD and the subsequent CD9P is that the CM9 is a dual-port SSD. This benchmark was by way of a working take a look at on the show:
The CM9 is constructed for an enterprise 24×7 workload, has energy restrict safety in addition to end-to-end knowledge safety, SIE/SED, FIPS 140-3 safety accreditation and is sampling to restricted clients.
KIOXIA GEN 5 CD9P ENTERPRISE SSD
The KIOXIA CD9P may resemble the CM9 however it’s a single port design and we’ll see some variations in efficiency and capability. It’s nonetheless primarily based on KIOXIA’s newest BiCS Gen 8 TLC NAND flash reminiscence and makes use of their CBA know-how which boosts energy effectivity, efficiency and storage density. This video supplies a greater clarification of CBA…
The CD9P additionally is available in a 2.5″ 15mm (as much as 61TB) or E3.S (as much as 30TB) kind issue and speaks to 14.8GB/s learn and a barely decrease 7GB/s write with as much as 2.6 million IOPS. This SSD can be accessible with or with out SED (self-encrypting design).
Lastly, we wish to thank the complete KIOXIA crew for being nice hosts throughout our keep at FMS 2025 in San Jose! It isn’t usually we see the President and CEO of a multi-billion greenback company attending and participating in occasions with firm members. Possibly I’m only a bit to old-world I assume!
This photograph depicts from left to proper Alex Mei, VP Company Advertising and marketing KIOXIA America, Hideyuki Namekawa, President and CEO KIOXIA America, Jon Coulter, Tweaktown Storage Editor, Caesar Ichimura, Chief Advertising and marketing officer KIOXIA and myself.
