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Kioxia Shows off its 10M IOPS GP1 SSD
There is a new push in the industry, not just for capacity, but also for higher-performance NVMe SSDs. With PCIe Gen6, companies like Kioxia are looking at ways to deliver very high-performance NVMe SSDs over the new links. Kioxia’s answer is to use SLC NAND to get to 10 million IOPS per drive. Eventually, the goal by next year or so is to get drives into the 100M IOPS range.
The GP1 Series rides PCIe Gen6 and Kioxia’s XL-FLASH generation 2 memory, a low-latency SLC-class NAND that the company pits against conventional TLC-based SSDs. Kioxia claims up to 10 million random read IOPS per drive at a 512-byte block size, plus an endurance rating up to 50 DWPD. Finer-grained 512-byte access granularity and that high write endurance together suit workloads where latency and sustained rewrite matter more than capacity, which is the fast-tier role the drive targets for Gen6 servers.
A 10M IOPS Kioxia GP1 SSD Shown Running at FMS 2026
At FMS 2026, we saw the Kioxia GP1 PCIe Gen6 NVMe SSD running live in the company's booth at just over 10M IOPS
