Kioxia Corporation has announced the successful compatibility and interoperability testing of its 2.5-inch Kioxia CM7 Series Enterprise PCIe 5.0 NVMe 2.0, CD8P Series Data Center PCIe 5.0 NVMe 2.0, and CD8 Series Data Center PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 solid-state drives (SSDs) with the Adaptec SmartRAID 4300 Series RAID storage accelerator card from Microchip Technology.

According to Kioxia, the Adaptec SmartRAID 4300 accelerator supports up to 32 NVMe SSDs, with each drive directly connected to the CPU through a dedicated channel. This architecture eliminates the traditional PCIe bottleneck of a single x16 host interface, enabling each SSD to function at optimal performance. The design aims to deliver high throughput and input/output operations per second (IOPS), targeting data-intensive enterprise and data center workloads.

The tested Kioxia SSDs—CM7 Series (PCIe 5.0, NVMe 2.0), CD8P Series (PCIe 5.0, NVMe 2.0), and CD8 Series (PCIe 4.0, NVMe 1.4)—are intended for high-performance enterprise and data center environments where maximizing throughput and low-latency performance are critical.

Kioxia states that the ecosystem approach to interoperability and compatibility is essential for the seamless integration of both existing and next-generation data center infrastructure.

Source: Kioxia