KIOXIA PM7 Series 24G SAS SSDs Announced

KIOXIA has announced that the PM7 Series enterprise SAS SSDs is now available for customer evaluation. The PM7 Series is the company’s 2nd generation of 24G SAS SSDs that are ideal for enterprise applications and modern IT infrastructures, such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, caching layer, and financial trading and analysis.

KIOXIA has announced that the PM7 Series enterprise SAS SSDs is now available for customer evaluation. The PM7 Series is the company’s 2nd generation of 24G SAS SSDs that are ideal for enterprise applications and modern IT infrastructures, such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, caching layer, and financial trading and analysis.

The newest release from KIOXIA features improved performance, reliability, and especially security, as the PM7 Series is FIPS2 140-2 certified and currently under testing for FIPS 140-3 certification.

With 24G SAS (SAS-4), it essentially doubles bandwidth over 12Gb/s SAS (SAS-3) drives as well as up to 20% in performance gains over its previous generation of 24G. Moreover, it is equipped with KIOXIA’s 5th generation BiCS FLASH 3D TLC flash memory and is quoted to deliver up to 4.2GB/s in sequential reads, 720,000 IOPS in random reads, and 355,000 IOPS in random writes. The KIOXIA PM7 also comes in capacities up to 30.72TB, which makes it the highest capacity 2.5” SAS SSD available.

KIOXIA indicates the following other features:

• Dual-port for high availability.
• Flash Die Failure Protection: A KIOXIA feature that allows for transparent disabling of a failing flash chip, while maintaining full reliability at the SSD level.
• Endurances for a wide range of workloads; read-intensive (1 DWPD5) and mixed-use (3 DWPD).
• Security options available, including sanitize instant erase (SIE6), TCG Enterprise self-encrypting drive (SED) and FIPS 140-2 certification. FIPS 140-3 certification is in process and is expected to be completed in 2022.

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