- Innogrit N3X SSD provides 50 DWPD Endurance but costs more than typical corporate discs
- Built for chatting, inference and workloads that punish ordinary SSDs
- Works entirely in SLC mode, sacrificing the capacity of serious performance gains
The SSD INNOGRIT N3X has a high endurance storage solution for corporate workloads with extreme writing requests.
Unveiled at Computex 2025 and with the second generation of Kioxia, XL-Flash operating in SLC mode, the reader is designed to deliver 50 readers per day (DWPD) over five years, far exceeding the endurance of typical corporate SSDs.
This level of sustainability is impressive, but it also raises questions about the cost of the device and if its performance will justify the expected premium.
SCM roots and specialized architecture
At the heart of the N3X is the memory of the storage class (SCM), a memory level designed to fill the performance gap between Dram and Nand Traditional Flash.
When used in SLC mode, Kioxia’s XL-Flash functions are a type of SCM, promising ultra weak latency and high endurance.
Unlike the standard Nand, which stores several bits per cell, the operation of XL-Flash in SLC Hierarte mode the speed and reliability of capacity.
This design choice closely reflects the original objectives of the Optane memory now now dismantled from Intel, positioning the N3X as a potential successor in this specialized niche.
Although SCM and XL-Flash technologies are not new, they remain relatively rare because of their high cost and their specialized applications.
Using the IG5669 PCIe 5.0 controller by innogriter, with the NVME 2.0 support, allows impressive performance affirmations: up to 14 GB / S of reading and 12 GB / S of writing speeds, as well as 3.5 million random reading iops.
Latence is the place where the N3X stands out particularly – the reading latency under 13 microseconds and latency writing as low as 4 microseconds.
If they are constantly reached, these figures would place the N3X among the fastest developing SSDs.
The reader is marketed for workloads involving supported entries, computer science and real -time inference, areas where traditional SSDs often fight with latency and wear.
However, the decision to operate entirely in SLC mode considerably reduces the capacity available per Mat, resulting in smaller driving sizes and a higher cost by GigaCtet.
Although the reader is offered in capacity ranging from 400 GB to 3.2 TB, these are not below what is expected from the biggest SSDs today.
Although the N3X has many technical qualities of the best laptops, it is not intended for consumer use.
Its dependence on SCM architecture, while allowing exceptional performance, places it firmly in the field of niche company deployments.
