Kioxia Unveils NX1 Data Centre SSDs With Direct Liquid-Cooling Support
KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation, a global leader in memory solutions, has announced the KIOXIA NX1 Series of solid-state drives (SSDs), a new generation of E1.S PCIe 5.0 NVMe data centre SSDs and the company’s first SSD with direct liquid-cooling support.
The KIOXIA NX1 Series features Kioxia’s next-generation, in-house developed controller architecture, which is designed to provide advanced capabilities while supporting future feature expansion.
Kioxia in a statement said the new drives are engineered to deliver high-performance, power-efficient storage for graphics processing unit (GPU)-enabled servers and hyperscale data centre environments.
The KIOXIA NX1 Series succeeds the KIOXIA XD Series and leverages PCIe 5.0 performance to help cloud service providers and hyperscale operators optimise infrastructure while maintaining operational efficiency.
Compared with the previous generation, the company said the KIOXIA NX1 SSDs deliver up to approximately 38 per cent higher sequential write performance and nearly 20 per cent higher random write performance.
As artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure continues to expand, storage systems must support increasingly dense, accelerator-rich server designs. The E1.S form factor helps maximise storage density while supporting advanced thermal management, including direct liquid-cooling configurations for efficient heat dissipation in high-performance AI server environments.
The KIOXIA NX1 Series is currently sampling with select hyperscale customers and will be showcased at FMS: The Future of Memory and Storage, which will be held from Aug 4 to 6 in Santa Clara, California.
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