Product Positioning
XS-SSD-8118Z-AIC extends the xSONiC NVMe SSD family into PCIe add-in-card deployments. It is intended for servers, workstations, and acceleration nodes that need high-performance storage through available PCIe slots.
Core Capabilities
- AIC form factor for PCIe slot installation.
- PCIe Gen4 x4 and NVMe 1.4 for high-throughput local storage.
- Up to 7.0 GB/s sequential read and 1,000K random read IOPS.
- Capacity options from 2TB to 8TB.
- Larger add-in-card thermal surface for sustained workloads.
Technical Notes
The AIC model is a fit for systems where cable-free PCIe slot storage is preferred over drive-bay installation. It can help accelerate compute-heavy applications, virtualization, data analytics, and AI/HPC workloads where local NVMe bandwidth is a bottleneck.
Typical Deployment Scenarios
- PCIe slot-based server storage expansion.
- High-end workstations and engineering systems.
- HPC and AI local storage acceleration.
- Finance, telecom, and high-throughput enterprise workloads.
