SATA Express

On the eve of Flash Memory Summit (August 11-13), Toshiba has announced a full range of NVMe-based PCIe SSDs using Toshiba controllers and Toshiba MLC flash. Toshiba NVMe Drive Families Drive Series PX04P XG3 BG1 Form Factors and Interface PCIe 3.0 x4 HHHL / 2.5” U.2 PCIe 3.1 x4 M.2 2280 / 2.5” SATA Express M.2 2230 / 16mm*20mm soldered module "M.2 1620" Capacities 800 GB, 1600 GB, 3200 GB Up to 1024GB Up to 256 GB QSBC Error Correction Yes Yes No TCG Pyrite Security No Yes Yes Sequential Read 3100 MB/s ? ? Sequential Write 2350 MB/s ? ? 4kB Random Read IOPS 660k ? ? 4kB Random Write IOPS 185k ? ? For the enterprise market, the PX04P series complements the SAS-based PX04S drives announced last week. The PX04P is available as a 2.5” drive with a U.2 (SFF-8639) connector, or as a PCIe expansion card. In either case, the drive supports four lanes of PCIe 3.0 and can make good...