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Kioxia 12.8TB SAS 24GBPS Solid State Drive PM6-V Series Overview

The Kioxia 12.8TB SAS 24GBPS Solid State Drive, part of the PM6-V Series, is engineered to meet the needs of high-demand enterprise environments where storage, performance, and reliability are critical. This 2.5-inch U.2 form factor SSD offers high capacity, advanced performance features, and is designed for mixed-use workloads, making it an ideal solution for demanding applications such as database management, virtualization, cloud computing, and big data analytics. The Kioxia PM6-V series incorporates BiCS Flash TLC NAND technology, ensuring optimal balance between cost, performance, and endurance.

Key Features of the Kioxia 12.8TB SAS 24GBPS SSD

High Capacity for Enterprise Storage

With an impressive 12.8TB storage capacity, the Kioxia PM6-V SSD provides ample space for large-scale enterprise applications. Data centers and cloud environments require large storage solutions that can handle growing datasets and increasingly complex applications. The high capacity of this SSD ensures organizations can keep up with the demands of big data, business intelligence, and real-time analytics while offering the ability to scale storage without compromising performance.

Performance Boost with SAS 24GBPS Interface

The Kioxia PM6-V Series SSD leverages the SAS 24GBPS interface, offering high-speed data transfer and reducing latency for demanding applications. This interface provides 24 gigabits per second data throughput, ensuring that data access is fast, efficient, and reliable. With SAS technology, users can handle high-performance workloads that require constant, rapid data transfers, ensuring the SSD performs optimally in environments with frequent read and write cycles.

BiCS Flash TLC NAND for Optimal Endurance

The Kioxia PM6-V Series utilizes BiCS Flash Triple-Level Cell (TLC) NAND technology. This advanced technology allows the SSD to offer higher storage densities and lower cost per gigabyte compared to other NAND types, like Single-Level Cell (SLC) and Multi-Level Cell (MLC). BiCS Flash enables higher performance and greater reliability, making the drive ideal for mixed-use workloads, where both reads and writes are frequent. Additionally, the endurance of this SSD is enhanced to handle continuous high-intensity operations, providing years of reliable service.

Enterprise-Class Performance and Speed

Sequential Read/Write Speeds

The Kioxia 12.8TB SSD offers sequential read speeds of up to 4,300 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 3,800 MB/s. These speeds make it an excellent choice for applications that need fast and consistent access to large files, such as video editing, high-performance computing, and large-scale database management. The fast data throughput ensures minimal latency in processing and accessing data, which is essential for time-sensitive applications in industries like finance, healthcare, and telecommunications.

Random Read/Write IOPS Performance

In addition to its impressive sequential speeds, the Kioxia PM6-V SSD delivers up to 1.4 million random read IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) and up to 350,000 random write IOPS. This high IOPS capability makes the drive ideal for transactional workloads such as databases and virtualized environments where frequent, random data access is required. High random IOPS performance ensures that the SSD can manage a wide variety of I/O requests simultaneously without affecting the overall system performance, which is critical for enterprise applications that rely on large-scale data processing.

Durability and Longevity of the Kioxia PM6-V Series SSD

Designed for Mixed-Use Workloads

The Kioxia 12.8TB SSD is optimized for mixed-use environments. Whether an application primarily reads or writes data, or experiences a combination of both, this SSD is designed to handle varied workloads with high reliability and consistent performance. This makes it perfect for environments such as cloud computing, data warehousing, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and virtualization, where users require balanced performance across a range of tasks.

Enterprise-Level Endurance

With a robust endurance rating, the Kioxia PM6-V Series SSD ensures that the drive can sustain consistent performance over its lifespan, even under heavy write-intensive conditions. The drive features wear-leveling algorithms that ensure data is evenly distributed across the NAND cells, preventing early wear on any single part of the drive. This makes the SSD a reliable option for long-term, continuous use in mission-critical applications.

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)

The Kioxia 12.8TB SAS SSD has a high Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) rating of up to 2.5 million hours. This rating indicates that the drive is highly reliable and is designed to function for years in enterprise environments with minimal risk of failure. This reliability is essential in enterprise settings where downtime can be costly and disruptive.

Compatibility and Integration

U.2 Interface for Easy Integration

The Kioxia PM6-V Series SSD is equipped with a U.2 interface, which is compatible with a wide range of enterprise-grade servers and storage systems. U.2 provides the flexibility of SATA-like connections, making it easier to integrate the SSD into existing infrastructures without requiring specialized hardware. This flexibility also supports hot-swapping, enabling seamless maintenance without the need for system shutdowns, which is crucial for maintaining uptime in data center environments.

Compatible Server Platforms

The Kioxia 12.8TB SSD is compatible with various enterprise servers, including systems from major manufacturers like Dell, Lenovo, and Supermicro. The drive is designed to work with servers that support the U.2 interface, such as the Dell PowerEdge series, including models like the R640, R650, R740xd, and R760. These servers are commonly used in large-scale enterprise environments where performance and reliability are paramount. With this compatibility, businesses can easily deploy the Kioxia SSD in their existing setups without additional complexity.

Supported Storage Arrays

In addition to individual servers, the Kioxia PM6-V Series SSD can be used in enterprise storage arrays, offering high-density storage solutions for businesses requiring vast amounts of space for data storage. Its compatibility with enterprise storage systems ensures that it can be seamlessly integrated into large-scale infrastructure for data management, backup, and disaster recovery.

Applications for the Kioxia PM6-V Series SSD

Data Centers

The Kioxia 12.8TB SAS SSD is perfectly suited for data center environments where high-capacity, high-performance storage solutions are essential. Data centers manage vast amounts of data and require storage devices that can handle high-speed data transfers while providing ample capacity for future growth. The Kioxia SSD's large storage capacity, combined with its high-speed performance and reliability, makes it an excellent choice for data centers handling cloud storage, virtualized workloads, and big data applications.

Virtualization and Cloud Computing

In the world of virtualization and cloud computing, storage systems must provide consistent and fast access to data. Virtualization environments rely on storage that can support multiple virtual machines (VMs) and handle I/O-intensive workloads. The Kioxia 12.8TB SSD excels in such scenarios, delivering fast random read/write speeds and high throughput, making it an ideal solution for virtualized servers, cloud applications, and containerized environments.

Big Data and Analytics

With the rapid growth of big data, businesses require storage solutions that can not only store large volumes of information but also process it quickly. The Kioxia PM6-V Series SSD is optimized for big data analytics, providing the speed and reliability needed to process vast datasets in real time. Its high-capacity storage ensures that data scientists and analysts can store and analyze large datasets efficiently, enabling faster insights and improved decision-making.

Database Management Systems

Databases are the backbone of many enterprise applications, and they require fast, reliable storage to ensure optimal performance. The Kioxia 12.8TB SSD is ideal for database management systems (DBMS), providing the capacity and speed necessary to handle heavy transactional workloads and support the fast read/write operations required by modern relational and NoSQL databases. By integrating the Kioxia SSD into a database environment, businesses can ensure faster query processing, improved system response times, and a more reliable storage solution.