Kioxia Corporation announced the prototype development and demonstration of its new KIOXIA CD9P Series PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs. These next-generation drives are the latest SSDs built with Kioxia’s 8th generation BiCS FLASH TLC-based 3D flash memory. 8th generation BiCS FLASH features CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology, a breakthrough architecture that significantly boosts power efficiency, performance, and storage density, while doubling the capacity available per SSD compared with the previous generation model.
As GPU-accelerated AI servers drive up the demands on storage infrastructure, maintaining high throughput, low latency, and consistent performance is critical — including keeping valuable GPUs highly utilized. The KIOXIA CD9P Series is purpose-built for these next-generation environments, delivering the speed and responsiveness required by AI, machine learning and HPC (high-performance computing) workloads to ensure GPUs stay fed with data and operating at maximum efficiency.
The CD9P Series leverages Kioxia’s most advanced 3D flash memory to date, featuring a CBA-based architecture that reduces heat generation, enhances thermal management, and delivers greater overall value through improved performance and power metrics and total cost of ownership.
KIOXIA CD9P Series drives deliver 4-corner performance improvements of up to approximately 125% in random write, 30% in random read, 20% sequential read, and 25% in sequential write speeds compared to the previous generation.
Furthermore, performance per watt of power consumption has improved by approximately 60% in sequential read, 45% in sequential write, 55% in random read, and 100% (2x) in random write. (Applies to the 15.36 terabyte (TB) model)
KIOXIA CD9P Series SSD highlights include (preliminary and subject to change):
- PCIe 5.0, NVMe 2.0, NVMe-MI 1.2c compliant
- Open Compute Project Datacenter NVMe SSD specification v2.5 support (Not all requirements)
- Form factors: 2.5-inch 15 mm thickness, EDSFF E3.S
- Read-intensive (1 DWPD) and mixed-use (3 DWPD) endurances
- Sequential performance (128 KiB/QD32) – 14.8 GB/s Read and 7 GB/s Write
- Random performance (4KiB) – 2,600 KIOPS (QD512) Read and 750 KIOPS (QD32) Write
- 2.5-inch capacities up to 61.44 TB and E3.S capacities up to 30.72 TB
- CNSA 2.0 algorithm support (Prepared for the threat posed by quantum computers)
