KIOXIA America, Inc. has expanded its CM9 Series enterprise SSD lineup with new direct liquid cooling (DLC) models designed for cold-plate-enabled server environments. The E3.S DLC models also support traditional air-cooled setups, addressing rising cooling demands from AI and high-performance enterprise workloads. As computing power increases, so do power requirements, making innovative heat dissipation solutions essential. DLC infrastructure offers significant energy savings over conventional air cooling while enabling denser server deployments per rack. The new CM9-DLC models come in read-intensive (1 DWPD) and mixed-use (3 DWPD) endurance options, ideal for SSD Context Caching. The drives comply with PCIe 5.0, NVMe 2.0, and NVMe-MI 1.2c specifications, support the OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD v2.5 standard, and offer dual-port support in the E3.S form factor. Capacities reach up to 30.72 TB for read-intensive and 25.6 TB for mixed-use workloads, with sequential performance up to 14.8 GB/s read and 11 GB/s write. Random performance peaks at 3,400 KIOPS (QD512) and 800 KIOPS (QD32). The CM9 Series drives are currently sampling to select customers and will be showcased at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, Calif., from October 12-15.
Maulik Sompura, Sr. Staff Director of Product Management for the SSD business unit at KIOXIA America, Inc., emphasized that the rise of AI infrastructure is driving a fundamental shift in data center design toward higher power densities and advanced cooling technologies. He noted that the CM9-DLC Series addresses these evolving requirements by combining industry-leading enterprise SSD performance with direct liquid cooling support in the E3.S form factor.
This enables customers to deploy denser, more energy-efficient AI systems while meeting the performance, endurance, and capacity demands of data-intensive workloads, including emerging AI architectures relying on large-scale memory and KV cache resources.
KIOXIA CM9 Series drives are currently sampling to select customers and will be showcased at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, taking place October 12 - 15 in San Jose, Calif.
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