This is the incredible performance of the Kioxia PCIe 5.0 SSD –

To this day almost everyone knows this Japanese manufacturer, but today we want to inform you of something that has left us stunned. This is the incredible performance of the PCIe 5.0 SSD from Kioxia, which has speeds of up to 14,000 Mbps.

This SSD prototype PCIe 5.0 It is scheduled to launch if nothing hinders the company’s plans, at the end of this year 2021. The SSD will be from the CD7 series and offers us an IOPS performance of almost double that of a PCIe 4.0 SSDs.

As you would expect this new SSD will come in the typical 2.5-inch EDSFF E3S format. To give us these speeds, it will use four PCIe 5.0 lanes. The manufacturer also noted that the M.2 version will later hit the market.

Kioxia has indicated that the first units will have a capacity of between 1-6TB up to 30TB and will be destined for data centers.

This new SSD, as we have detailed before, will have a reading speed of up to 14,000 Mbps and the writing will be around 7,000 Mbps. As you can see in the images, it has an increase of 103% compared to other PCIe 4.0 Kioxia models. You can even see the evolution in latencies. These were reduced by 77% and writing 50%.

You may be wondering when the user will have the option of purchasing one of these wonderful SSDs, because according to the manufacturer, the consumer versions will be ready sometime next year 2022, as the new platforms from AMD and Intel begin. to arrive. In addition, you have to wait for Phison to finalize its driver for this type of SSD and thus be able to start mass production.