The Memblaze PBlaze6 6530 is a solid-state drive in the U.2 form factor, launched on May 1st, 2021. It is available in capacities ranging from 1.9 TB to 7.5 TB. This page reports specifications for the 7.5 TB variant. With the rest of the system, the Memblaze PBlaze6 6530 interfaces using a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the PM8640 NVMe3108 Edison from Microchip Flashtech Microsemi, a DRAM cache chip is available. Memblaze has installed 176-layer TLC NAND flash on the PBlaze6 6530, the flash chips are made by Micron. Thanks to support for the fast PCI-Express 4.0 interface, performance is excellent. The PBlaze6 6530 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 6,400 MB/s and 4,800 MB/s write; random IO reaches 1100K IOPS for read and 230K for writes.
The SSD's price at launch is unknown. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Memblaze guarantees an endurance rating of 21024 TBW, a high value.