KIOXIA CM9 series supports cold-plate cooling option in E3.S form factor for AI and other high-performance environments
KIOXIA Europe GmbH today announced the addition of direct liquid cooling (DLC) models to its KIOXIA CM9 Series enterprise SSD line-up to support cold-plate-enabled server designs. The new DLC models, in the E3.S form factor, also support traditional air-cooled environments.
As AI and other high-performance enterprise environments continue to advance, direct liquid cooling is becoming increasingly important to address growing computing power demands and associated cooling requirements. In order to fulfil the growing compute demands, increased power requirements are driving the need for innovative heat dissipation solutions.
DLC infrastructure can offer significant energy savings compared with conventional air cooling, while enabling more servers to be cooled per rack.
Beneficial for SSD Context Caching, the new KIOXIA CM9-DLC models include read-intensive (1 DWPD) and mixed-use (3 DWPD) endurance options.
“Scaling AI infrastructure is not simply about adding more compute – it also means finding more efficient ways to manage growing memory requirements and the heat generated by increasingly dense systems,” said Paul Rowan, Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer at KIOXIA Europe GmbH. “The KIOXIA CM9-DLC Series addresses both sides of that equation, providing high-performance flash for SSD context caching that can relieve pressure on limited GPU HBM capacity, while supporting the transition towards direct liquid cooling in next-generation data centres.”
Key features of the KIOXIA CM9-DLC Series SSD include:
- PCIe 5.0, NVMe 2.0, NVMe-MI 1.2c specification compliant
- Support for Open Compute Project (OCP) Datacenter NVMe SSD v2.5 specification
- Dual-port support in the E3.S SSD form factor
- Capacities up to 30.72 TB read-intensive (1 DWPD) and 25.6 TB mixed-use (3 DWPD) endurances
- Sequential performance (128 kibibytes (KiB)/QD32) of up to 14.8 GB/s read and 11 GB/s write
- Random performance (4 KiB) of up to 3,400 KIOPS (QD512) and 800 KIOPS (QD32)
