In this article, learn how KIOXIA PCIe® 4.0 NVM Express® SSDs enable high-performance enterprise and datacenter computing.
The performance of the latest iteration of PCI-Express technology, generation 4.0 (PCIe 4.0®), is being utilized by new NVM Express® Solid State Drives (SSDs) from KIOXIA. NVMe® SSDs are being integrated into the latest cloud-based data center architectures as well as into various performance-centric and latency-sensitive applications. Growing demand for NVMe-based storage with PCIe® 4.0 interfacing is driving this migration.
KIOXIA, one of the world leaders in memory solutions including flash memory and SSDs, provides high-capacity SSD products that deliver the enhanced capabilities needed by today’s businesses. The enterprise-class CM6 and data center-class CD6 SSDs are highly optimized for read-intensive applications. They have strong sequential and random performance parameters, plus industry-leading levels of power efficiency.
Why choose PCIe 4.0-based NVMe SSDs?
Enterprise and data center-specific NVMe SSDs will soon overtake SATA and SAS SSDs as the preferred storage solutions in data centers worldwide. The combined segment (in units) is expected to grow from 42.5% in 2019 to 75% by the end of 2021 to 91% by the end of 20231. Customers are increasingly recognizing the great potential of PCIe 4.0-based NVMe SSDs for their enterprise performance requirements and cloud-based data center architectures.
There are a number of reasons to deploy PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs in your data center. The top five benefits as noted by KIOXIA include:
- Twice the Performance - Improves SSD data transfers from 8 GT/s to 16 GT/s, or from ~1 GB/s to ~2 GB/s per lane
- Improves Energy Efficiency - Doubles SSD performance on a per-watt basis, reducing footprint and power requirements
- Supports Emerging U.3 Tri-mode Backplane Infrastructures - Conforms to the SFF-TA-1001 Specification 1 and SFF-TA-1005 Specification 2
- Choices in SSD Class - Features enterprise and data center SSD options to fit specific application requirements
- Supports Cloud Data Center Architectures based on NVMe-oF™ - Disaggregates SSDs from compute nodes for availability as shared network-attached resources
PCIe 4.0 Performance with KIOXIA’s NVMe SSDs
With its enterprise-class CM6 Series and data center CD6 Series, KIOXIA offers NVMe SSDs that deliver the capabilities to benefit from PCIe 4.0. Both series use KIOXIA’s 96-layer BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory technology, and are compliant with the NVMe 1.4 specification.
Enterprise NVMe SSDs: CM6 Series (CM6-R / CM6-V)
Enterprise-class NVMe SSDs are designed to run 24 hours/7 days per week in data center servers and storage to deliver the highest performance that any class of SSD can currently achieve. The CM6 Series targets high-performance server applications such as:
- ● Databases: require low-latency, dual-ports (for multi-path and high-availability), and very high transactions per second.
- ● Data Analytics: require high sequential and random-read bandwidth for analytic searches.
- ● Compute-side AI and ML: require fast data transfers into DRAM and GPUs during staging while validating data immediately for corruption during checkpoints
Data center NVMe SSDs: CD6 Series (CD6-R / CD6-V)
Data center NVMe SSDs are designed for scale-out and hyper-scale environments, where read performance, Quality of Service (QoS), and power efficiency are key metrics. The CD6 Series target general-purpose server applications and scale-out environments such as:
- ● Cloud Computing: require high data transfer and IOPS performance, and low latency.
- ● Container Orchestration: require high transfer rates and IOPS performance in combination with high queue depths in random read and write environments.
- ● Content Delivery Networks (CDNs): require read-intensive performance typically at 95% read and 5% write.
- ● Databases: require low latency and high transactions per minute.
- ● Media Streaming: require high read bandwidth that can move content into several systems as fast as possible for streaming to many subscribers simultaneously
Notes:
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1: Source: IDC - “Worldwide Solid State Drive Forecast Update, 2019-2023, Market Forecast-Table 12, Jeff Janukowicz, December 2019, IDC #44492119
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