Kioxia has launched a new (separate from the recently introduced CD7 line) SSD-drives to the corporate market - the EM6 series. The novelty differs markedly from previous offerings in this segment - these are NVMe over Fabrics drives for EBOF (Ethernet Bunch of Flash) systems. Simply put, these SSDs use an Ethernet interface to outperform the competition in data center scalability and cost efficiency.



Other Features:

NVMe-oF 1.1 and NVMe Compliant 1.4 2.5 "chassis, 15 mm thick. Endurance in 1 DWPD with capacity options 3 840 GB and 7 680 GB

The key component is the 88SN2400 controller from Marvell. It transforms an NVMe SSD into an NVMe-oF SSD with one or two 25 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, enabling data centers to use memory efficiently with latency comparable to Direct Attached Systems (DAS).

“With the ability to increase performance NVMe SSDs, native NVMe-oF are well suited for AI, machine learning, storage expansion and high performance computing (HPC). In the latter case, the use of the Luster file system (used to provide high throughput and parallel access to computing clusters) is extremely beneficial for storage systems based on NVMe-oF. Including for EBOF systems with EM6 drives providing high availability (HA) configurations. easy-to-read form. The company drew an analogy with the costs associated with upgrading a smartphone's memory. For example, in a phone with a microSD slot, you can simply insert this very card. While on devices that do not have such a slot, the costs are much higher than the conventional $ 20 for the purchase of MicroSD - you will have to buy a new phone.



The same, according to Kioxia, is happening in the world Data centers and corporations. “A lot of our customers have to buy the proverbial 'new phone' every time they want to scale their storage infrastructure. To solve this very problem, we created an SSD with an Ethernet interface. Our goal is to unleash the full performance of SSDs while relieving customers of the burden of spending on redundant edge infrastructure. ”

According to Kioxia, this brings data centers much closer to addressing future-proofing challenges, the flash storage industry is currently facing when scaling volumes.

For the EM6 series, the company says it has passed NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) certification testing to connect to A100-based systems for AI and machine learning.

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