Kioxia CM6/CD6 Series PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs Qualified to Accelerate Application Performance on Next Gen Supermicro Systems

The transition to PCIe 4.0 technology is in full swing, and Kioxia Europe GmbH is a way forward.

The company announced that its lineup of CM6 and CD6 Series PCIe 4.0 (NVMe enterprise and data center SSDs have gained compatibility approval with Super Micro Computer, Inc.‘s PCIe 4.0-based platforms, including a range of enterprise-ready rackmount systems encompassing Ultra, WIO, BigTwin, FatTwin, SuperBlade, 1U/2U NVMe all flash arrays, GPU accelerated systems, and Super Workstations.

Users are moving to NVMe SSDs to address heightening enterprise performance requirements. These drives are also seeing traction in the latest cloud-based data center architectures, plus various performance-centric and latency-sensitive applications. Growing demands for NVMe-based storage with PCIe 4.0 interfacing is driving this migration, and CM6/CD6 SSD series are delivering the enhanced capabilities needed. These SSDs are optimized for read intensive applications. They have strong sequential and random performance parameters, plus power efficiency.

“While the attach rate of NVMe SSDs are continually increasing at server platforms, the most critical point is to ensure the functionality between the two,” noted Paul Rowan, VP, SSD marketing and engineering, Kioxia Europe. “Our priority is to bring innovations to our customers ensuring that their storage will perform as they would expect, we are very happy to work with suppliers like Supermicro to ensure proper operation and full interoperability.“

A provider in developing systems for enterprise, data center and specialized compute and storage platforms, Supermicro works closely with technology partners to deliver the latest gen of cutting-edge solutions.

“Our family of NVMe servers and storage offerings brings transformative capabilities over legacy SAS and SATA interconnects,” said Vik Malyala, SVP, Supermicro. “Conducting extensive testing with Kioxia allows us to deliver a complete solution that our customers can trust.”