Press Release KIOXIA Introduces New Levels of Performance with Enterprise NVMe SSD Family Featuring PCIe 5.0 Technology CM7 Series SSDs Available in New EDSFF E3.S and Industry Standard 2.5-Inch Form Factors Düsseldorf, Germany, 26 July 2022 – KIOXIA Europe GmbH today announced that its CM7 Series enterprise NVMe SSDs are now shipping to select customers. Optimized for the needs of high-performance, highly efficient servers and storage, the CM7 family is designed with PCIe 5.0 technology in Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E3.S and 2.5inch form factors[1]. Having introduced the industry’s first EDSFF drives designed with PCIe 5.0 technology[2] last year, the addition of the CM7 Series expands KIOXIA’s leadership position and allows OEM customers to deliver best-in-class[3] performance to end users: These SSDs saturate the PCIe 5.0 interface at 14GB/s read through

The EDSFF E3 family enables the next generation of SSDs with PCIe 5.0 technology and beyond to address future datacenter architectures, while supporting a variety of new devices and applications. It provides improved airflow and thermals, signal integrity benefits, eliminates the need for LEDs on the drive carriers, and gives options for larger SSD capacity points. CM7 Series highlights include:         EDSFF E3.S and 2.5-inch 15mm Z-height form factors (U.2 and U.3) Designed to the NVMe 2.0 and PCIe 5.0 specifications, and supports SFF-TA-1001/U.3 functionality SFF-TA-1001 (also known...

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