Elevating the bar for enterprise NVMe SSDs, Kioxia’s LC9 drive delivers 245.76 TB in each U.2 (2.5-inch) and E3.L kind components. It joins the beforehand introduced 122.88-TB mannequin within the U.2 (2.5-inch) and E3.S kind components, increasing the LC9 collection to satisfy the efficiency and effectivity calls for of generative AI—whereas serving to exchange a number of power-hungry HDDs.
LC9 drives characteristic a PCIe 5.0 interface, providing as much as 128 GT/s by way of a Gen5 single x4 or twin x2 configuration. They’re compliant with NVMe 2.0 and NVMe-MI 1.2c specs and meet lots of the necessities within the Open Compute Challenge (OCP) Datacenter NVMe SSD specification v2.5.
These high-capacity SSDs combine a number of 8-TB gadgets, every constructed from 32 stacked dies of 2-Tb BiCS8 3D QLC NAND in a compact 154-ball package deal. The drives additionally incorporate a controller and firmware, together with options corresponding to die failure restoration, parity safety, and energy loss safety. Twin-port operation permits excessive availability, and knowledge safety choices embody SIE, SED, and deliberate FIPS 140-3 compliance.
The LC9 collection of SSDs is now sampling to pick out clients.
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