Availability of Kioxia RM7 Series Value 12Gb SAS Up to 7.68TB 2.5-Inch SSDs for HPE ProLiant Gen11 Servers

Kioxia America, Inc. announced that its lineup of RM7 Series Value SAS SSDs are available in ProLiant Gen11 servers from Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

These SSDs are the latest-gen of the company’s Value 12Gb SAS SSDs, which provide server applications with higher performance, reliability and lower latency than SATA SSDs. Proving there is ‘Life After SATA, Value SAS delivers higher IOs/W and IOs/$ ⁽¹⁾ than SATA.

In addition to being available in ProLiant servers, the company’s RM Series Value SAS SSDs are being used in the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 (SBC-2). As part of the program, the firm’s SSDs provide flash storage in HPE Edgeline and ProLiant servers in a test environment to conduct scientific experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

RM7 Series Value SAS SSD overview:

• 12Gb SAS interface (SAS-3), single-port
• Capacities from 960GB to 7.68TB ⁽²⁾
• Endurance options include 1 drive write per day (DWPD ⁽³⁾) and 3 DWPD
• Random read performance up to 190,000 IO/s (4k@512 queue depth); sequential read performance up to 1,100MB/s (128K) ⁽⁴⁾
• Sanitize instant erase (SIE) for fast and secure cryptographic erase ⁽⁵⁾

“Kioxia was the first to introduce Value SAS technology back in 2019 ⁽⁶⁾ and we are now proud to launch the 3rd-gen of our Value SAS product line on HPE servers,” said Faraz Velani, senior director and head, ‘Go-to-Market’, SSD business unit. “Value SAS technology was designed to out-perform SATA SSDs, delivering the robustness needed to support an enterprise class infrastructure while drawing minimal power, which is required to meet certain application needs. With outer space being the most rugged and the furthest edge environment there is, we are excited to have Value SAS as the core storage technology supporting HPE SBC-2 over the next several years, targeted for the International Space Station.”

Kioxia has been collaborating with HPE to bring the firm’s best-in-class storage to ProLiant servers for years and enable a range of solutions, from mobile to data center to enterprise. Value SAS SSDs are part of the company Life After SATA campaign, enabling customers to transition away from SSDs using the rapidly aging SATA protocol, while delivering higher performance and reliability.

“To further accelerate exploration with our Spaceborne project, HPE needed a storage technology that could handle the rigorous and harsh environments of space,” said Norm Follett, senior director, space technologies and solutions, HPE. “Value SAS technology delivered on all the requirements and we’re pleased to collaborate with Kioxia for our next mission to the ISS scheduled in January.”

⁽¹⁾ IOs/W=input-output operations per second, per watt. IOs/$=input-output operations per second, per dollar. These are metrics to describe performance benefits for a watt of energy and dollar of cost.
⁽²⁾ Definition of capacity: Kioxia Corporation 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 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 OS, and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
⁽³⁾ DWPD: Drive Write(s) Per Day. One full drive write per day means the drive can be written and re-written to full capacity once a day every day under the specified workload for the specified lifetime.. Actual results may vary due to system configuration, usage and other factors.
⁽⁴⁾ Read and write speed may vary depending on various factors such as host devices, software (drivers, OS, etc.), and R/W conditions.
⁽⁵⁾ SIE option supports Crypto Erase, which is a standardized feature defined by NVM Express Inc. SIE optional models are available
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