By Carolyn Mathas, contributing writer
Addressing the growing requirements of data centers and cloud data centers to access highly reliable, low-power, and consistent-performance flash memory, Toshiba Memory America Inc. announced the XD5 Series NVMe SSD . With a low-profile of 7 mm, the 2.5-inch XD5 solution is optimized for low latency and performance consistency in read-intensive and heavy transactional workload environments. The XD5 Series is suited for NoSQL databases, large-scale-out data mining and analysis, streaming, and Open Compute Project (OCP) applications and systems.
The XD5 2.5-inch series is the newest member of Toshiba Memory America’s broad data center SSD portfolio, which includes the CD5 Series and CM5 Series. In addition to high reliability, the XD5 Series flash memory and controllers offer data protection, end-to-end error detection, power-loss protection, and a five-year limited warranty.
The Toshiba PCIe NVMe SSDs are suited for multiple enterprises and dynamic data center workload profiles.
Features of the XD5 Series include a PCIe Gen3x4 interface, sequential read performance of up to 2,700 MB/s, and sequential write performance to 895 MB/s. The series is built on 64-layer BiCS FLASH TLC 3D flash memory and has power consumption of 7 W. Performance rates for random read/write is 250,000/21,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS), respectively.
According to Toshiba, at one drive write per day (when the drive is written and rewritten to full capacity once per day), the XD5 Series can write nearly 4 terabytes (TB) of random data every day for five years at a consistent performance rate.
The XD5 Series NVMe SSD platform 2.5-inch drives are currently sampling to select customers with availability slated for Q2 2019.
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