Kioxia XG8 Series PCIe 4.0 M.2 Type 2280 Up to 4TB SSD

Kioxia Europe GmbH introduced its latest XG8 Series of client SSDs for high-end notebooks, desktops, gaming systems, workstations, as well as data center boot applications.

With the XG8 Series, the company bolsters its PCIe 4.0 SSD portfolio.

Designed to bring next-gen performance to demanding client environments,it enables power users to take advantage of PCIe Gen4 x4 speed performance and ample storage space.

It is available in an M.2 type 2280 form factor and supports optional security features using the TCG Pyrite 2.01 and TCG Opal 2.01 standards ^[1] to ensure data is kept secure at home, in the office or on the road. In addition, it features end-to-end data path protection for data integrity.

Additional features include:

• Forward-looking support for NVMe 1.4 feature set and Basic Management Commands over System Management Bus (SMBus), which enables tighter thermal management for PCs
• Power Loss Notification is supported to protect data against forced shutdowns
• Sideband signals (PERST#, CLKREQ# and PLN#) are available in both 1.8V and 3.3V (current client models support only 3.3V), enabling support for more platforms.
  

“XG8 continues the expansion of the Kioxia PCIe 4.0 product offering,” said Paul Rowan, VP, SSD marketing and engineering. “With capacities of 512, 1,024, 2,048 and 4,096GB, and in the M.2 2280 form factor it provides the ideal storage solution for a wide spectrum of applications including notebooks, workstations and as a server boot SSD with the performance and reliability one would expect from Kioxia SSDs.”

The XG8 Series is available for customer evaluation.

^[1] Availability of security/encryption options may vary by region.
*The samples are for evaluation purposes. The specs of the samples may differ from the production models.
*Definition of capacity: Kioxia defines 1MB as 1,000,000 bytes, 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes and 1TB as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer OS, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1Gb = 2^30 bits = 1,073,741,824 bits, 1GB = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes and 1TB = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.