announced the expansion of its enterprise storage lineup on October 12, 2026, with the introduction of direct liquid cooling models for the KIOXIA CM9 Series. These E3.S form factor SSDs are currently sampling to select customers.
The KIOXIA CM9-DLC series is compliant with and specifications, offering sequential read speeds up to 14.8 GB/s. Read-intensive models reach 30.72 TB in capacity, while mixed-use versions provide endurance of 3 drive writes per day.
Designed for cold-plate-enabled servers and air-cooled environments, these dual-port drives support OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD v2.5. KIOXIA will showcase the new hardware at the 2026 in San Jose, California, from October 12 to October 15.