Tag Archives: KIOXIA

We may have seen things slow down just a bit with the ‘not so recent’ demand for memory that has driven SSD prices through the roof.  SSDs are not alone.  This morning I priced out a RTX 5090 graphics adapter and actually found one peaking over $20,000. What once was reachable at $2000 has risen 5/6x and can now be …

KIOXIA has announced the addition of direct liquid cooling (DLC) models to its KIOXIA CM9 Series enterprise SSD lineup to support cold-plate-enabled server designs. The new E3.S DLC models 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 …

So this is our third report on a KIOXIA retail SSD and the same thing seems hitting me hard.  This SSD is not available ‘officially’ through KIOXIA retail sales as of yet.  We can find availability of it on Amazon (which is a great thing) but one needs to be careful as this may be from an out of country …

I just can’t wrap my head around why KIOXIA hasn’t brought its consumer SSDs to North America. And, in the same vein, I still don’t fully understand why Micron retired the much-loved Crucial brand. That said, I’m convinced KIOXIA-branded SSDs would do extremely well here, potentially rivaling those top-tier bestsellers we all know. In the meantime, our small team is …

Our look at the KIOXIA CD9P-R Gen5 Data Center SSD marks a first for The SSD Review, and it’s a bit of a nostalgic one. Our connection with the KIOXIA team stretches back many years, all the way to the early OCZ Revo and Vertex days. That lineage later became Toshiba, and eventually KIOXIA around 2018–2019. Since shifting our focus …

With the price of memory these days, it can only be expected that we will see more value-driven options in both client and consumer SSD solutions, such as pre-configured PCs and laptops. Right in line with this, KIOXIA has introduced its first Gen4 QLC NAND equipped SSD known as the EG7. The KIOXIA EG7 Series is a PCIe 4.0 (Gen4) …

I guess…. most people might not know that companies aren’t always front and center at tech shows showing off their products with large displays on the showfloor.  There are times when they do attend, all flash aside (Bit of a pun… get it?), specifically for client meetings and low key introductions.  Such was the case with KIOXIA this year at …

Up bright and early this first day of CES 2026 Las Vegas with a bit of great news!  KIOXIA has added a new entry into the client SSD market, their first since the Kioxia BG6.  Our last KIOXIA client SSD review was way back in 2022 with the KIOXIA XG8 found here.  Keep in mind this is a client SSD …

PCIe 5.0 (Gen 5) has settled into the flash world very well and become the standard in the past year plus, as has SSD increasing capacity points, endurance and power efficiency.  We have spoken plenty of KIOXIA’s newest award winning Gen 5 LC9 with its 245TB capacity, still reaching great performance of 12GB/s throughput and over 1 million IOPS for …

Explaining enterprise, data center and the newest AI-centric focussed SSDs can sometimes be a bit confusing to many but this week at FMS 2025, KIOXIA displayed something that I have tried to explain for years with respect to what exactly we do and how flash media is structured.  Describing ‘flash’ is actually very simple, in that, it is like an …