XFD6 Series Data Center SSDs Meet Performance, Power, and Temperature Requirements for Hyperscale Applications
Delivering on its promise to meet the future infrastructure demands of companies, today KIOXIA Europe GmbH announced the production availability of E1.S SSDs for data centers in the Enterprise & Data Center (EDSFF) SSD design. from the XD6 series of 6 mm. First introduced in late 1, KIOXIA's XD1 series SSDs with EXNUMX.S EDSFF [XNUMX] design were the first to meet the specific requirements of hyperscale applications such as performance, power and temperature of the “Open Compute Platform (OCP) NVMe Cloud SSD Specification”.
Representing the latest innovation in Flash storage for cloud servers and hyperscale data centers, KIOXIA E1.S EDSFF SSDs are designed to optimize system density, efficiency and manageability. As defined by the EDSFF consortium and leveraging OCP's "NVMe Cloud SSD Specification" technology, the E1.S's robust design replaces the entry-level M.2 model and delivers higher density and better performance, reliability, and thermal management. In addition to this, the E1.S format has been developed to allow for hot plugging, a functionality enhancement not present in the M.2 design.
Leveraging KIOXIA's BiCS FLASH 6D memory, this read-intensive XD3 series features 1 DWPD endurance supporting NVMe 1.3c and PCIe 0 specifications and is available in capacities of XNUMXTB and XNUMXTB with eighty-four terabytes. An alternative with TCG-Opal XNUMX encryption has also been included.
The E1.S EDSFF design is geared toward large-scale deployments in hyperscale data centers, due to its ability to scale in terms of capacity, power, performance, and thermal management. Drives designed using OCP's "NVMe Cloud SSD Specification" technology can be used on OCP's new Yosemite V3 platform, developed by Meta (formerly Fb).
"Microsoft and the OPCP Storage working group have demonstrated how loose cooperation in the field has brought hyperscalers, system designers, and SSD vendors together on next-generation storage designs," he said. Jason Adrian, Senior Manager, Azure Platform Architecture, Microsoft. “The E1.S EDSFF design represents the future of Flash storage in hyperscale data centers, including Azure platforms. Solid-state drives designed using OCP's "NVMe Cloud SSD Specification" technology, such as KIOXIA's XD6 series, will power the next generation of E1.S EDSFF servers."
“We are delighted to offer our service customers significant benefits and therefore improved total cost of ownership through units that are more thermally efficient and, with better cooling, deliver much higher performance” said Frederik Haak, Senior Manager Marketing and also SSD Engineering at KIOXIA Europe GmbH. "New specifications and designs, such as EDSFF, are enhancements that data centers and edge applications require to achieve more efficient and optimized Flash memory deployment."
KIOXIA actively participates and cooperates with the E1 and E3 EDSFF solution industry development suite and for this reason continues to cooperate with leading server and storage system developers to unleash the full potential of Flash memory and NVMe and PCIe technologies.
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