Kioxia SSDs Achieve Compatibility with Microchip’s Adaptec SmartRAID 4300 Series RAID Storage Accelerator
SmartRAID 4300 accelerator supports up to 32 NVMe SSDs
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on December 24, 2025 at 2:01 pmKioxia Corp. announced that its 2.5-inch CM7 Series Enterprise PCIe 5.0 NVMe 2.0, CD8P Series Data Center PCIe 5.0 NVMe 2.0 and CD8 Series Data Center PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 SSDs have been successfully tested for compatibility and interoperability with the Adaptec SmartRAID 4300 Series RAID storage accelerator card from Microchip Technology Inc.
The Adaptec SmartRAID 4300 accelerator supports up to 32 NVMe SSDs, with each drive directly connected to the CPU through its own dedicated channel.
Adaptec SmartRAID 4300 accelerator

This design eliminates the PCIe bottleneck typically associated with a traditional single x16 host interface, enabling each SSD to operate at peak performance. This architecture delivers exceptional throughput and IOs, making it a solution for data-intensive enterprise applications. The success of next-gen data center infrastructures relies on ecosystem collaboration and interoperability to ensure integration of current and future technologies.












