Dell Technologies World: Kioxia America Showcases Flash Storage Solutions

At Dell Technologies World, Kioxia America, Inc. demonstrates how its SSDs are accelerating customer application performance and enabling product breakthroughs.

From SSDs designed with PCIe 5.0 technology (Kioxia CD8 Series 2.5-Inch Up to 15.36TB 2nd Gen Data Center NVMe SSDs With PCIe 5.0 and Kioxia CD7 Series Up to 7.68TB SSDs With E3.S Form Factor and PCIe 5.0 ) that boost power and performance to the industry’s first lineup of Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E3.S SSDs ⁽¹⁾, drives from the company are used in a number of Dell Technologies, Inc.’ product lines.

The company, inventor of NAND flash, sits at the forefront of flash storage and SSD innovation. Achievements such as the introduction of 3D flash memory, XL-F^lash storage class memory, and new form factors and interfaces underscore the contributions the company has made toward enabling next-gen applications – and transforming the digital world.

“A culture of innovation is the bedrock upon which a company can claim to offer breakthrough solutions – and both Dell and kioxia have that in their DNA,” commented Neville Ichhaporia, VP, SSD marketing and product management. “We are proud to collaborate closely with Dell to push the limits of what’s possible in our new data-centric world.”

Visitors to the Kioxia Dell Technologies World on the show floor at the Venetian Resort from May 2-5 will have access to the following technology and product demos:

SSDs designed with PCIe technology – demonstrating the benefits delivered over PCIe 4.0 SSDs in a variety of simulated real-world server and storage configurations and workload combinations, including:

• CD7 EDSFF E3.S data center SSDs running MongoDB on Dell equipment – in one of the first public demonstrations of an E3.S drive. EDSFF E3 specs were developed by companies that include Dell and Kioxia to optimize SSD designs for capacity, power, performance, and thermal/cooling – and to replace legacy 2.5” form factor SSDs.

• FL6 Series enterprise NVMe SCM SSDs being put through their paces in a PowerEdge server running Aerospike. The dual-port and PCIe 4.0-compliant kioxia FL6 Series SSDs bridge the gap between DRAM and TLC-based drives, making them well-suited to latency-sensitive use cases such as caching layer, tiering and write logging.

• RM6 Series 12Gb SAS SSDs running SED – SEKM encryption and an OLTP database on a Dell PowerEdge R740 server. The firm’s RM6 drives deliver higher performance and reliability and are targeted to replace SATA SSDs.

• CM6 Series enterprise NVMe SSDs running VMware vSAN workloads on PowerEdge servers. CM6 drives are designed for enterprise applications and use cases – including high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, caching layer, financial trading, and data analytics.

⁽¹⁾ As of October 25, 2021, based on industry survey of publicly available information.