Kioxia XD8 Series PCIe 5.0 NVMe EDSFF E1.S Up to 7.68TB SSDs for Cloud and Hyperscale Environments

Kioxia Corporation announced the availability of its XD8 Series PCIe 5.0 Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E1.S SSDs.

These drives are the 3rd Gen of E1.S SSDs from the company and are compliant with PCIe 5.0 (32GT/s x 4) and NVMe 2.0 specifications, and support the Open Compute Project (OCP) Datacenter NVMe SSD v2.5 specification ⁽¹⁾.

Designed for cloud and hyperscale environments, the XD8 Series meets the growing demand for higher performance, enhanced efficiency, and greater scalability in data centers. These drives empower cloud providers and hyperscalers to optimize their infrastructure, delivering superior performance while maintaining operational efficiency.

Available in capacities of 1.92, 3.84 and 7.68TB, XD8 Series evaluation drives are sampling to select customers.

XD8 Series highlights include:

Additional NVMe support includes NVM Express Management Interface (NVMe-MI) v1.2c
Sequential read performance up to 12,500MB/s (a 73% improvement over the previous-gene) ⁽²⁾⁽⁴⁾
Sequential write performance up to 5,800MB/s (a 20% improvement) ⁽²⁾⁽⁴⁾
Random read performance of 2,300,000 IO/s (a 48% improvement) ^(2)(3)(4)
Random write performance up to 250,000 IO/s (a 25% improvement ) ^(2)(3)(4)
EDSFF E1.S with 9.5mm, 15mm and 25mm heat sink options
Kioxia designed SSD controller, BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and firmware
Non-SED and TCG Opal SSC SED options
Full end-to-end data protection, power loss protection

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XD8 Series SSDS DS

⁽¹⁾ Not all requirements of the OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD v2.5 Spec are supported. Contact your Kioxia sales representative for more information.
⁽²⁾ All performance improvements are comparisions to the previous gen Kioxia E1.S XD7P Series SSD (7.68TB capacity model). Specifications are subject to change without notice.
⁽³⁾ IO/s: Input Output Per Second (or the number of I/O operations per second)
⁽⁴⁾ Read and write speed may vary depending on various factors such as host devices, software (drivers, OS etc.), and RW conditions.12500