The KIOXIA CD8P Series is the latest storage solution added to the company’s lineup of data center-class solid state drives (SSDs) – and it’s a big one. Designed for general-purpose server and cloud environments, the KIOXIA CD8P Series takes full advantage of PCIe 5.0 performance and speed.The kicker is that the KIOXIA CD8P Series will be available in capacities up to 30.72 TB and in Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E3.S and 2.5-inch (U.2) form factors with a single-port design. EDSFF E3.S form factor capacities will start at 1.6 TB going up to 15.36 TB, with the 2.5-inch (U.2) form factor capacities starting from 1.6 TB to 30.72 TB.
The new 5th generation data center drives are based on the KIOXIA BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory triple-level cell (TLC) technology and utilize an in-house developed controller. KIOXIA CD8P Series SSDs are compliant with PCIe 5.0 and NVMe 2.0 specifications as well as the NVMe Management Interface (NVMe-MI™) v1.1d, and support Open Compute Project (OCP) Datacentre NVMe SSDv specification (not all requirements).Kioxia has not decided when it plans to start shipping its CD8P SSD lineup of SSDs. Still, since hyper scalers need some time to validate and qualify the new storage devices, these new drives will take some time to leave assembly factories. Meanwhile, companies that will use CD8P drives for things like edge AI deployments may deploy these new SSDs somewhat faster if they find them suitable for their workloads.
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