In the present day we’re looking at what may be the very best SSD available on the market at present. The Kioxia CM7 has one factor that different mainstream enterprise drives wouldn’t have. It’s a PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD. With that stated, additionally it is a first-gen NVMe SSD launching a 12 months earlier than lots of its rivals which have nonetheless not proven up. On this evaluate, we’re going to try the Kioxia CM7 to see what it has to supply.
Kioxia CM7 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD Overview
The Kioxia CM7 is the “CM” sequence SSD which suggests it’s the firm’s enterprise providing. Then again “CD” is the corporate’s “information heart” sequence of drives. We anticipate extra efficiency per drive from the CM sequence at this level.
We beforehand coated the Kioxia CM7 because it was one of many first PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs we noticed available on the market. Even at present, Solidigm and Micron, as examples, wouldn’t have PCIe Gen5 enterprise SSDs out. There’s a good likelihood that these corporations will see their first era PCIe Gen5 NVMe SDDs launch across the time of a second-gen drive from Kioxia on the price we’re going.
It is a 3.2TB capability level that places it within the CM7-V sequence for combined workloads at 3 DWPD. Then again, CM7-R is the corporate’s read-optimized 1 DWPD choice. The large distinction is the quantity of overprovisioning.
The two.5″ drive we’re taking a look at at present (there’s additionally an EDSFF E3.S model) is just 3.2TB, one of many smaller drives we now have checked out not too long ago.
Right here is the opposite aspect of the drive.
Subsequent, allow us to check out efficiency.
