There are not many people who truly understand Toshiba's movements, given that name and their reputation as designers of the NAND Flash memory, being pioneers in DRAM technology and other forms of solid devices. Toshiba maintains the hard drive category, but part of the SSDs have been completely abandoned by Kioxia, which started operating in the last quarter of last year, benefiting from Toshiba's catalog.
At CES 2020, the product type has been made compulsory, but it is not limited to many news items recycling products that Toshiba already has Of course, we should highlight the introduction of the 30 TB NVMe SSD, which is no small feat. Let's take a look at everything.
Corporate NVMe SSDs: Kioxia CD6, CM6 and XD5
On the other hand we have models CD6, is designed for data centers and comes with capabilities ranging from 800 GB to 15 TB. They use the next U.3 connector (SFF-TA-1001) PCI-Express 4.0 x4 interface and NVMe 1.4 protocol. They are looking at their SIE, FIPS140-2 and SED Opal / Ruby technologies. Note that despite the interface and its connector, they are made in standard 2.5-inch format.
CM6 is cousin's brother CD6, and is targeted at companies but more on sensitive servers that require high availability. In this case, they excel at providing skills from 800 GB to 30 TB, and relevant performance data: up to 6,400 MB / s speed transfer. As of late, they use PCI-Express 4.0 x4 interface with NVMe 1.4 and its connector is U.3.
Finishing off business-based devices, we find XD5 come in the same form factor as before but also in M.2 format. In this case it is the redesign of the Toshiba XD5 they had earlier in the market.
Buyer NVMe SSDs: Kioxia XG6-P and XG6
The company is also pointing to consumer-driven SSC 2020 SSDs, which includes the redesign of the Toshiba XG6 and XG6-P that they already had on the market, but now have a new trademark.
These SSDs come in M.2 format only with PCI-Express 3.0 interface and NVMe 1.2 protocol, with speeds of up to 3,180 MB / s read and are built with 3-layer NAND BiCS FLASH 3D TLC memory.
In the meantime when the manufacturer has not shown the release dates or pricing, then, we will have to wait for CES to complete this information.
