Kioxia CD6 Series PCIe Gen4 NVMe U.3 Up to 15TB SSDs for HPE Servers

Kioxia America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.), is the first (1) supplier to launch PCIe Gen4 NVMe data center-class SSDs within the HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP) NVMe performance SSD portfolio available on HPE ProLiant, Synergy and Apollo servers.

The company offers a broad SSD product portfolio and has been collaborating with HPE to create flash-based storage solutions for years. The company announced that its CD6 Series of PCIe Gen4 NVMe U.3 SSDs now enables HPE customers to upgrade from SATA to NVMe performance at an affordable price.

“Customers increasingly turn to HPE for IT solutions that continue to offer the most advanced, innovative capabilities, to accelerate application performance across new and demanding workloads and fast-track delivery for new ideas, products and services,” said Krista Satterthwaite, VP, compute product management, HPE. “Through our latest collaboration with Kioxia, we are offering customers high-performance storage at an affordable price by combining HPE servers with new cutting-edge PCIe Gen4 NVMe mainstream performance U.3 SSDs.“

“At Kioxia, we are committed to working closely with our customers to create value and deliver greater performance, reliability and TCO,” said Jeremy Werner, SVP and GM, SSD business unit, Kioxia America. “Our OEM customers are bringing cutting-edge storage performance to end users thanks to our lineup of PCIe Gen4 and U.3 solutions. With the CD6 Series, HPE can offer the latest technology and improved application and system efficiency.“

The lineup of PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs brings performance improvements of up to 2x over its PCIe Gen3 predecessors and is 12x faster than SATA SSDs ⁽²⁾. The firm was the first ⁽³⁾ company to demonstrate and ship enterprise and data center-class PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs. CD6 Series SSDs (along with CM6 Series SSDs) are SFF-TA-1001 compliant (also known as U.3), enabling NVMe, SAS or SATA drives to be used in a Universal Backplane Management-enabled (SFF-TA-1005) drive slot within HPE Gen10 Plus platforms, which simplifies future upgradability and lowers cost for customers. The CD6 and CM6 Series U.3 NVMe SSDs are backward compatible with U.2 NVMe SSD drive slots, which are supported on HPE Gen10 platforms.

CD6 Series PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs are single-ported, targeting large-scale data center deployments running general purpose applications, such as database, cloud computing, virtualized and containerized environments, web servers, and media streaming.

The CD6 Series is available in both read-intensive (1 DWPD) and mixed-use (3 DWPD), with capacities ranging from 800GB to 15.36TB.

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⁽¹⁾ As of August 17, 2020
⁽²⁾ Source: Kioxia corporation, as of August 6, 2020. Based on a Kioxia market survey of publicly available information.
⁽³⁾ Source: Kioxia corporation, as of February 20, 2020. Based on a Kioxia market survey of publicly available information.

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