Kioxia launched the industry’s first batch of ultra-large-capacity CD8P SSD series products this week. This series has a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface and a capacity of up to 30.72TB.
According to Kioxia, the CD8P series SSDs are designed for mixed-use and read-intensive workloads, with the 24/7 reliability features expected from data center-class SSDs.
The KIOXIA CD8P series is available in E3.s and U.2 form factors, offering capacity specifications from 1.6 TB to 30.72 TB:
Sequential read speeds up to 12000 MB/s
Sequential write speeds up to 5500 MB/s
Random read 4K IOPS up to 2,000,000
Random write 4K IOPS up to 400,000
CD8P SSD uses Kioxia’s proprietary SSD platform, including its own NVM 2.0 compatible master control, firmware and 112-layer BICS 5 3D TLC NAND particles, supports 7th generation flash memory chip failure protection to ensure reliable data storage, power loss protection and end-to-end data protection.
In addition to the regular CD8P model, Kioxia will also offer models that support the Sanitize Instant Erase (SIE) and Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) functions. Also, CD8P will not be FIPS SED capable.
It should be noted that there are two configuration versions of CD8P SSD, which are summarized as follows:
CD8P-V for mixed-use workloads (3 full disk writes per day): Available in 1.60TB, 3.20TB, 6.40TB, and 12.8TB capacities
CD8P-R (1 full disk write per day) for read-intensive applications: Available in 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB, 15.36TB, and 30.72TB capacities