Strengthening the lineup for cloud applications
| Complements M.2 products with a 7mm height and 2.5in form factor
| 2700MB/s, 895MB/s sequential read, write performance

Toshiba Memory Corporation announced on the 14th that it has strengthened its lineup of 'XD5 series data center NVMe SSDs' for large-scale scalable cloud applications by adding a 2.5-inch form factor product.
The new PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe SSD complements the M.2 22110 product using a 7mm-high 2.5-inch form factor. It can be widely used in various applications, including data centers.

The new product will be released in three capacities: 960GB, 1920GB, and 3840GB. It provides sequential read performance of up to 2,700MB per second and sequential write performance of up to 895MB per second within a 7W active power range. This product is designed for read-intensive applications such as NoSQL databases, big data analytics, and streaming media.

The XD5 series SSD was exhibited at the Toshiba Memory America A-1 booth at the 2019 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, held in San Jose, California, USA, from the 14th to the 15th.

Sample shipments will begin in the second quarter of 2019.