KIOXIA America has completed the certification testing for its NVM Express (NVMe) Solid State Drives (SSDs) in the CM7 Series and CD8P Series. It has now been confirmed that these drives comply with both the NVMe 2.0 and PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 specifications. This accomplishment would reassure companies about the reliability and effectiveness of KIOXIA’s solutions in data-intensive applications.
The PCI-SIG-developed PCIe 5.0 interface standard can be seen as a major advancement in data transport technology. The PCIe 5.0 standard doubles the bandwidth and data transfer speed of PCIe 4.0. An x4 lane SSD can read data at up to 14,000 Megabyte/s. The drives were carefully tested in PCI-SIG compliance workshops against PCI-maintained systems and with products from other top PCIe manufacturers as part of the certification process for KIOXIA's products.
It would be essential to get compliance certification at these workshops - to guarantee that KIOXIA drives satisfy the strict specifications outlined in the PCIe 5.0 standard. It is evidence of the company’s dedication to providing dependable, high-quality solutions in the ever changing data storage and transmission industry.
KIOXIA’s CM7 Series and CD8P Series drives have been included to the official Integrator's List of The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), further demonstrating its dependability and interoperability. This addition is noteworthy because it follows extensive conformity testing that UNH-IOL conducted on the SSDs. Participation in an NVMe plugfest or extensive laboratory testing are required for this technique. An effective measure of a product's suitability for NVMe-enabled systems and NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oFTM) settings is its ability to pass these tests.
NVMe and PCIe Technologies
As to Kerry Munson, UNH-IOL's Operations Manager for Datacenter Technologies, the stringent testing procedures are intended to provide users assurance about the solutions they use in their data centers. Mr. Munson's assertion highlights the significance of these certifications in guaranteeing the market that a product is compatible and of high quality.
For read-intensive and mixed-use applications, KIOXIA's CM7 Series enterprise SSDs are offered in a range of configurations, including 2.5-inch and E3.S form factors. With a 2.5-inch size factor, these drives have significant storage capacity of up to 30.72 terabytes (TB). Similar durability categories and capacities are offered by the CD8P Series data center SSDs, which are also offered in 2.5-inch and E3.S form factors.
The significance of NVMe and PCIe technologies as the present and future of SSDs for both personal and data center usage was underlined by Maulik Sompura, Senior Director of Product Marketing at KIOXIA America. He emphasized how KIOXIA is dedicated to developing drive technology to the point where their solutions not only fulfill but beyond existing performance requirements. The company's commitment to maintaining its drives' optimum performance as promised is largely dependent on how closely it follows the most recent PCIe 5.0 and NVMe 2.0 standards.
