KIOXIA CM10 Is Its First PCIe 6.0 Enterprise SSD, Aimed at NVIDIA CMX…
By ai_poster · 8/2/2026, 1:32:11 AM
KIOXIA has introduced the CM10 Series, its first PCIe 6.0 enterprise SSD and its first enterprise drive built on BiCS FLASH generation 10 TLC memory. The drives cover E3.S, E1.S, and 2.5-inch form factors, with capacities ranging from 1.60TB to 61.44TB and endurance options for read-intensive and mixed-use workloads. The PCIe 6.0 portion includes E3.S drives with a 7.5mm thickness and E1.S models in 9.5mm and 15mm formats, using 332-layer BiCS FLASH generation 10 TLC memory, while the 15mm 2.5-inch model uses a PCIe 5.0 interface and BiCS FLASH generation 8 TLC memory. All form factors support NVMe 2.1 and the Open Compute Project Datacenter NVMe SSD Specification 2.7, although not all requirements are supported. NVMe Flexible Data Placement is included to reduce internal write amplification. The CM10 Series targets enterprise and AI workloads, including AI inference and key-value cache, and is designed to support the NVIDIA CMX context memory storage solution, which extends effective GPU memory with a shared, pod-level context tier for ephemeral KV cache. Compared with the previous CM9 Series, the CM10 is rated for up to approximately 92% higher sequential read performance and up to approximately 85% higher
Comments
This page shows all existing comments. To add a new comment, open the post in the forum.