Unveiled: KIOXIA XD6 Series E1.S form factor SSDs

KIOXIA XD6 Series: Industry’s First PCIe® 4.0 OCP “NVMe™ Cloud Specification”-Enabled SSD (Photo: Business Wire)

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 4 -- Kioxia Corporation, the world leader in memory solutions has expanded its broad portfolio of client, enterprise and data center SSDs with the addition of the KIOXIA XD6 Series E1.S form factor SSDs.

Kioxia’s XD6 Series are the first E1.S SSDs to address the specific requirements of hyperscale applications, including the performance, power and thermal requirements of the Open Compute Platform (OCP) ‘NVMe™ Cloud SSD Specification’.

According to a statement, Kioxia’s XD6 drives are now sampling to select data center customers.

Designed to maximise system density, efficiency and simplicity, Kioxia’s EDSFF E1.x SSDs represent the future of flash storage for servers in cloud and hyperscale data centers.

Leveraging the OCP ‘NVMe™ Cloud SSD Specification’, the flexible, efficient, small form factor E1.S replaces the bare module M.2 form factor and delivers greater density, performance, reliability and thermal management.

E1.S is also designed to be hot pluggable for increased serviceability, which is another benefit over M.2.

Key features include sequential read and write performance up to 6,500MB/s and 2,400MB/s, respectively; 15W power consumption; security options: TCG Opal; full end-to-end data path protection; power loss protection; and, expanded drive health information.

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