**Kokia's Exciting New Developments at CES 2023**

As we explore the latest innovations from Kokia, it's clear that they're pushing the boundaries of technology and making some exciting advancements. One area where they're really making strides is in the field of data center and enterprise storage solutions.

They're utilizing a variety of sizes in terms of the form factor, which means that they can accommodate different needs and applications. For example, one drive is 9.5mm tall, while another is 15mm tall, and yet another is 25mm tall. This allows for more heat sinks to be added, resulting in more efficient cooling and better performance.

It's also worth noting that these drives are fully PCI Express 6.0 compatible, which means they can take advantage of the latest bandwidth capabilities. In the server and enterprise space, having access to this level of bandwidth is essential for maximizing performance and efficiency.

Kokia's data center and enterprise solutions are designed to meet the needs of businesses and organizations that require high-speed storage and data transfer. By utilizing cutting-edge technologies like PCI Express 6.0 and stacked NAND memory, they're able to provide fast, reliable, and efficient storage solutions.

**The Power of Stacked NAND Memory**

One of the most interesting developments from Kokia is their use of stacked NAND memory technology. This involves stacking multiple layers of memory on top of each other, allowing for a significant increase in storage capacity and data density.

It's remarkable to think about how much data can be stored on a single chip using this technology. For example, Kokia has developed a chip that includes 162 layers of stacked NAND memory, which is capable of storing 2.66 terabytes of data. This is equivalent to the storage capacity of several large hard drives or SSDs.

The implications of this technology are significant, and it's clear that Kokia is at the forefront of this area of research and development. By continuing to expand and improve their stacked NAND memory technology, they're opening up new possibilities for data storage and transfer.

**A Closer Look at Kokia's Drive Solutions**

In addition to their data center and enterprise solutions, Kokia also offers a range of drive products that cater to different needs and applications. For example, they offer drives with ED-SFF and E1-SFF form factors, which are designed for use in a variety of storage devices such as M.2 NVMe SSDs.

These drives are capable of storing large amounts of data, and they're designed to be compact and efficient. The fact that Kokia offers different sizes and form factors means that users can choose the solution that best meets their needs.

It's also worth noting that these drives are fully compatible with PCI Express 4.0, which is a significant improvement over earlier generations of PCIe technology. This allows for faster data transfer rates and improved overall performance.

**Conclusion**

Kokia's innovations at CES 2023 demonstrate their commitment to pushing the boundaries of technology and meeting the needs of businesses and organizations that require high-speed storage and data transfer solutions. Their use of stacked NAND memory, PCI Express 6.0 compatibility, and range of drive products make them a leading player in the field of data center and enterprise storage.

Their dedication to research and development is evident in their commitment to creating innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of their customers. By continuing to invest in cutting-edge technologies like stacked NAND memory, Kokia is opening up new possibilities for data storage and transfer.

We'd like to extend a huge thank you to Kokia for sponsoring our CES 2023 coverage, as well as Gigabyte, Asus, and Cooler Master, who have also supported us throughout this event. We're excited to share more of our content with you in the coming days, so be sure to subscribe to our channel and hit that thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enmy coverage of CES 2023 is brought to you by gigabyte Asus kioxia and Cooler Master hi everyone welcome back to my continuing coverage of CES 2023 I am visiting kokia maker of fancy high-end ssds nand flash really really fast storage and they have some of the fastest storage ever designed here the smallest chips with the biggest capacities that I've ever seen let's take a look here's a glowing glorious desktop of some of the fastest ssds in the world and I got to level with you guys I got to be honest I I'm not uh from an IT background so I haven't worked in the data centers before I've not worked an IT job I haven't even built that many things that you could call a high-end server so I'm going to be leaning on some of uh my rep friends here to uh elucidate some of the specs and stats on some of the this Hardware but one thing I do know is color coding color coding is always appreciated hxa has made all the blue ssds over here their Enterprise drives we got the orange ssds over here which are their data center drives and then we have the green drives over here which are their client ssds so let's start with the client ssds because these are probably the most familiar to anyone who has maybe built a gaming PC before you guys might be familiar with the BG5 this is the tiniest little SSD that that you ever did see so these are made to go in machines laptops and desktops and other devices that can accept m.2 nvme ssds of this size this is a 2240 size which is 22 mm wide and 40 mm long and the cool thing about this one the BG5 and its predecessor the bg4 is it is uses an S so design so there's an and Flash in here a single chip which has all of your uh storage up to 2 tbyte capacity on this one and there's the actual controller and everything integrated as well so it's sort of a single chip solution and that's what lets them keep this so small so tiny uh suitable for installation on even some portable handheld gaming devices but I didn't say that out loud heard you get in trouble for that the people hunt these down right to put in Steam decks people do people do yeah they do actually a quick correction I got ahead of myself the BG5 currently is available in capacities up to one terabyte but I'm going to show you in just a second how they might be expanding that to provide even more terabytes of storage on a single chip like that so they do have a larger version of the BG5 this one has up to four of the chips in here so that one can go up to 2 terabytes currently and they uh can also expand that out to 4 terabytes and then there's the xg8 which is going to have the maximum performance um from their client lineup and this one is currently available in capacities up to 4 and it does have Dam cache as well now while I've got these in my hand I wanted to quickly address some questions that I've gotten about them because I've run some ads for Kia's ssds and people ask me if they can buy them and you can actually directly purchase these in North America they are available to clients directly in a lot of other regions in the world however if you're in North America you can probably get these via purchasing an oem device like a laptop that has these integrated and in fact these are all over in the US but they're in devices that were sold as a complete unit let's talk about the rest of these drives though and I've asked for uh some information on drives that if you're like a storage nerd or you're really into uh data center Hardware uh what you might think wow that's really cool so let's start with the kokia em6 here which does use a 2.5 in form factor with a 15 mm height uh which is fairly common in the data center this one goes to capacities up to uh 8 terabytes or just shy of 8 terab 7,680 GB but the unique thing here is that it actually has an Ethernet connection built in as well as the actual Network Hardware to run that so you could add this uh to your network as storage without necessarily needing uh a control unit or even indeed like a dedicated uh storage server to actually control it or uh manage the network traffic so that's a really easy way to add storage to your network without necessarily needing to add a bunch of extra Hardware uh like boxes that have CPUs to control the data storage next we're going to talk about the CM7 which is the successor to the m cm6 and this is the most beastly high-end most powerful Drive uh that they have here in terms of iops or input output operations per second this one hits 2.5 million that's absolutely absurd that is absolutely way way way more performance than anyone in their right mind would necessarily need for home usage for example that's why these are Enterprise drives that are made for uh much beefier installations than you know your home server or even your home PC but if you're impressed by those iops uh consider the capacities up to 30 terab 30 terab in a 2.5 in 15 mm tall uh form factor here that's that's a lot of terabytes and in terms of data density uh that's another way you can actually save both on space and on power usage uh when you're building out a server denser drives you simply need fewer of them in order to get up to the capacity that you want and fewer drives are going to draw less power but look at this there's not just one CM7 there are two of them this is the CM7 in a different form factor I was just talking about things like power savings that are very important to the data center and Enterprise usage CM7 has a new form factor called edsff or that's specifically referring to the connector here so as you can see there's a single connector there at the top and from my admittedly limited understanding of the edsff form factor uh they make better use of space they're also easier to keep cool and as we all know if you can keep your Hardware cooler it's going to have a longer lifespan typically and although official certifications are still forthcoming uh we are told that this is going to be fully PCI Express 6.0 compatible so that's going to give a big boost to bandwidth uh of course if you're building a gaming PC we're we're at PCI 4.0 and even with the fastest new graphics cards like the RTX 4090 they didn't need to go beyond pcie 4.0 that is not the case in the server and Enterprise space uh so taking advantage of all that bandwidth is definitely going to be something that people building the latest and greatest uh servers are going to want to do and it also supports a variety of sizes in terms of the form factor so here is is simply a smaller version of that same uh edsff connector there on the end this is the XD 7p and this is also uh here and a few different varieties as well actually I take that back brief correction this is the XD 7p which we have one version of here this is edsff uh e1s in terms of the form factor and then here we have three different versions of the same drive the xd6 this is edsf E1 dos and basically uh you're having a trade-off here in terms of the size of the co Solution on the unit so this one is 9.5 mm tall this one is 15 mm tall this one is 25 mm tall or about the same thickness as a typical case fan and as you can probably see the height is simply allowing them to add more more heat sinks more heat sinks uh more material more surface area for heat dissipation so if you have the space for the larger size uh then you can run with more power and more performance while also having more efficient cooling so guys there's just a smattering of some of the drives that kokia produces and again I know I have some of my audience who actually knows a little bit more actually probably a lot more than I do about this stuff so if you guys have found this fora into the uh Data Center and Enterprise space entertaining or elucidating at all let me know in the comment section down below I'd love to hear it I know kokia would as well and I'm going to finish uh with this little display that they have over here because you guys might not know what Bix flash is it is stacked nand memory so uh they got to a certain point when they were using planer memory where they were like we can't make it any denser so we got to start stacking it on top of each other and I'm not going to attempt to explain it in any further depth than that but uh here's an example somewhat just showing how they're stacking all these layers on top of each other because the end result is a chip that looks kind of like that which if you're just looking at it is fairly flat in fact here's one of them right there and as you can see from the side fairly flat these need to fit into small devices storage devices uh m.2 nvme ssds and so on and so forth but this sort of exploded view gives you a better idea of how many layers they're actually stacking in there how much detail and uh how many little bits of data are stored all way all throughout and they're of course continuing to expand this technology they're stacking more layers but not just more layers but better layers denser layers look at the actual amount of storage that they get if you're comparing this to other 3D Stacks Nan flash 162 layers for 2.66 terab on a single little chip that's about that big that's 2.6 tab on a chip that's about that size and a few years back I had a chip that was about this size the one they originally used for the bg4 and I was like that's 500 gigs on chip that size which also included the it was an S so that included a controller as well which is equally impressive but really amazing how this technology continues to evolve and how they're able to just wedge more and more bits of data into such a small area but guys that's all the time I have for this video I want to say a huge thank you to kokia for sponsoring my CES 2023 coverage my sponsors are what allows me to come here and make not just this video but all the videos that you've seen me make so far this week so big thank you to them as well as gigabyte Asus and Cooler Master I have more videos still to come so if you're interested definitely subscribe to my YouTube channel hit the Thumbs Up Button if you enjoyed this video we'll see you all in the next onemy coverage of CES 2023 is brought to you by gigabyte Asus kioxia and Cooler Master hi everyone welcome back to my continuing coverage of CES 2023 I am visiting kokia maker of fancy high-end ssds nand flash really really fast storage and they have some of the fastest storage ever designed here the smallest chips with the biggest capacities that I've ever seen let's take a look here's a glowing glorious desktop of some of the fastest ssds in the world and I got to level with you guys I got to be honest I I'm not uh from an IT background so I haven't worked in the data centers before I've not worked an IT job I haven't even built that many things that you could call a high-end server so I'm going to be leaning on some of uh my rep friends here to uh elucidate some of the specs and stats on some of the this Hardware but one thing I do know is color coding color coding is always appreciated hxa has made all the blue ssds over here their Enterprise drives we got the orange ssds over here which are their data center drives and then we have the green drives over here which are their client ssds so let's start with the client ssds because these are probably the most familiar to anyone who has maybe built a gaming PC before you guys might be familiar with the BG5 this is the tiniest little SSD that that you ever did see so these are made to go in machines laptops and desktops and other devices that can accept m.2 nvme ssds of this size this is a 2240 size which is 22 mm wide and 40 mm long and the cool thing about this one the BG5 and its predecessor the bg4 is it is uses an S so design so there's an and Flash in here a single chip which has all of your uh storage up to 2 tbyte capacity on this one and there's the actual controller and everything integrated as well so it's sort of a single chip solution and that's what lets them keep this so small so tiny uh suitable for installation on even some portable handheld gaming devices but I didn't say that out loud heard you get in trouble for that the people hunt these down right to put in Steam decks people do people do yeah they do actually a quick correction I got ahead of myself the BG5 currently is available in capacities up to one terabyte but I'm going to show you in just a second how they might be expanding that to provide even more terabytes of storage on a single chip like that so they do have a larger version of the BG5 this one has up to four of the chips in here so that one can go up to 2 terabytes currently and they uh can also expand that out to 4 terabytes and then there's the xg8 which is going to have the maximum performance um from their client lineup and this one is currently available in capacities up to 4 and it does have Dam cache as well now while I've got these in my hand I wanted to quickly address some questions that I've gotten about them because I've run some ads for Kia's ssds and people ask me if they can buy them and you can actually directly purchase these in North America they are available to clients directly in a lot of other regions in the world however if you're in North America you can probably get these via purchasing an oem device like a laptop that has these integrated and in fact these are all over in the US but they're in devices that were sold as a complete unit let's talk about the rest of these drives though and I've asked for uh some information on drives that if you're like a storage nerd or you're really into uh data center Hardware uh what you might think wow that's really cool so let's start with the kokia em6 here which does use a 2.5 in form factor with a 15 mm height uh which is fairly common in the data center this one goes to capacities up to uh 8 terabytes or just shy of 8 terab 7,680 GB but the unique thing here is that it actually has an Ethernet connection built in as well as the actual Network Hardware to run that so you could add this uh to your network as storage without necessarily needing uh a control unit or even indeed like a dedicated uh storage server to actually control it or uh manage the network traffic so that's a really easy way to add storage to your network without necessarily needing to add a bunch of extra Hardware uh like boxes that have CPUs to control the data storage next we're going to talk about the CM7 which is the successor to the m cm6 and this is the most beastly high-end most powerful Drive uh that they have here in terms of iops or input output operations per second this one hits 2.5 million that's absolutely absurd that is absolutely way way way more performance than anyone in their right mind would necessarily need for home usage for example that's why these are Enterprise drives that are made for uh much beefier installations than you know your home server or even your home PC but if you're impressed by those iops uh consider the capacities up to 30 terab 30 terab in a 2.5 in 15 mm tall uh form factor here that's that's a lot of terabytes and in terms of data density uh that's another way you can actually save both on space and on power usage uh when you're building out a server denser drives you simply need fewer of them in order to get up to the capacity that you want and fewer drives are going to draw less power but look at this there's not just one CM7 there are two of them this is the CM7 in a different form factor I was just talking about things like power savings that are very important to the data center and Enterprise usage CM7 has a new form factor called edsff or that's specifically referring to the connector here so as you can see there's a single connector there at the top and from my admittedly limited understanding of the edsff form factor uh they make better use of space they're also easier to keep cool and as we all know if you can keep your Hardware cooler it's going to have a longer lifespan typically and although official certifications are still forthcoming uh we are told that this is going to be fully PCI Express 6.0 compatible so that's going to give a big boost to bandwidth uh of course if you're building a gaming PC we're we're at PCI 4.0 and even with the fastest new graphics cards like the RTX 4090 they didn't need to go beyond pcie 4.0 that is not the case in the server and Enterprise space uh so taking advantage of all that bandwidth is definitely going to be something that people building the latest and greatest uh servers are going to want to do and it also supports a variety of sizes in terms of the form factor so here is is simply a smaller version of that same uh edsff connector there on the end this is the XD 7p and this is also uh here and a few different varieties as well actually I take that back brief correction this is the XD 7p which we have one version of here this is edsff uh e1s in terms of the form factor and then here we have three different versions of the same drive the xd6 this is edsf E1 dos and basically uh you're having a trade-off here in terms of the size of the co Solution on the unit so this one is 9.5 mm tall this one is 15 mm tall this one is 25 mm tall or about the same thickness as a typical case fan and as you can probably see the height is simply allowing them to add more more heat sinks more heat sinks uh more material more surface area for heat dissipation so if you have the space for the larger size uh then you can run with more power and more performance while also having more efficient cooling so guys there's just a smattering of some of the drives that kokia produces and again I know I have some of my audience who actually knows a little bit more actually probably a lot more than I do about this stuff so if you guys have found this fora into the uh Data Center and Enterprise space entertaining or elucidating at all let me know in the comment section down below I'd love to hear it I know kokia would as well and I'm going to finish uh with this little display that they have over here because you guys might not know what Bix flash is it is stacked nand memory so uh they got to a certain point when they were using planer memory where they were like we can't make it any denser so we got to start stacking it on top of each other and I'm not going to attempt to explain it in any further depth than that but uh here's an example somewhat just showing how they're stacking all these layers on top of each other because the end result is a chip that looks kind of like that which if you're just looking at it is fairly flat in fact here's one of them right there and as you can see from the side fairly flat these need to fit into small devices storage devices uh m.2 nvme ssds and so on and so forth but this sort of exploded view gives you a better idea of how many layers they're actually stacking in there how much detail and uh how many little bits of data are stored all way all throughout and they're of course continuing to expand this technology they're stacking more layers but not just more layers but better layers denser layers look at the actual amount of storage that they get if you're comparing this to other 3D Stacks Nan flash 162 layers for 2.66 terab on a single little chip that's about that big that's 2.6 tab on a chip that's about that size and a few years back I had a chip that was about this size the one they originally used for the bg4 and I was like that's 500 gigs on chip that size which also included the it was an S so that included a controller as well which is equally impressive but really amazing how this technology continues to evolve and how they're able to just wedge more and more bits of data into such a small area but guys that's all the time I have for this video I want to say a huge thank you to kokia for sponsoring my CES 2023 coverage my sponsors are what allows me to come here and make not just this video but all the videos that you've seen me make so far this week so big thank you to them as well as gigabyte Asus and Cooler Master I have more videos still to come so if you're interested definitely subscribe to my YouTube channel hit the Thumbs Up Button if you enjoyed this video we'll see you all in the next one\n"