Specifications
Model Number (SED)
KCD8DPUG7T68
Series
KIOXIA CD8P-R — Read Intensive
Capacity
7,680 GB (7.68 TB)
Form Factor
2.5-inch, 15 mm thickness (U.2)
Interface
PCIe 5.0 x4, NVMe 2.0
Maximum Interface Speed
128 GT/s (PCIe Gen5 x4)
Flash Memory
KIOXIA BiCS FLASH Gen 5 TLC
Endurance
1 DWPD (drive writes per day, 5 years)
Sequential Read (128 KiB)
12,000 MB/s
Sequential Write (128 KiB)
3,500 MB/s
Random Read (4 KiB)
1,900K IOPS
Random Write (4 KiB)
150K IOPS
Power Consumption (Active)
21 W typ.
Power Consumption (Ready)
5 W typ.
Power Loss Protection
Yes — PLP plus end-to-end data correction
Security
SED — TCG Opal 2.0 / Ruby SSC self-encrypting
Operating Temperature
0 °C to 73 °C
Non-Operating Temperature
-40 °C to 85 °C
Humidity (Operating)
5% to 95% R.H.
Vibration (Operating)
21.27 m/s² {2.17 Grms}, 5 to 800 Hz
Shock (Operating)
9.8 km/s² {1,000 G}, 0.5 ms
Supply Voltage
12 V ± 10%, 3.3 V ± 15%
Dimensions (W × L × H)
69.85 × 100.45 × 15 mm
Weight
130 g max
MTTF
2,500,000 hours
Warranty
5 years
Overview
The KIOXIA CD8P-R Series is a read-intensive data center NVMe SSD built on a PCIe 5.0 (32 GT/s x4) interface and the KIOXIA BiCS FLASH generation 5 TLC process. It is optimised for scale-out and cloud workloads — big data and IoT analytics, online transaction processing, virtualised environments, and streaming media / content delivery networks.
This 7,680 GB (7.68 TB) (KCD8DPUG7T68) is the SED build of the CD8P-R. The self-encrypting drive option adds TCG Opal 2.0 and Ruby SSC support so the drive can be crypto-erased and re-provisioned instantly, which is what hyperscale and multi-tenant operators require when a node leaves a pool. The base model for the same capacity is KCD81PUG7T68 and the SIE (Sanitize Instant Erase) model is KCD8XPUG7T68.
Rated at 1 DWPD for a 5-year service life with power loss protection, this is a read-heavy tier drive: put it in front of workloads that are 80%+ reads and keep the mixed-use CD8P-V or CD8-V for write-dominated namespaces. QS Compute supplies the CD8P-R SED line in volume with matched firmware revisions and full traceability.
Key Benefits
PCIe 5.0 performance with read-optimised endurance — up to 12,000 MB/s sequential read and 1,900K IOPS random read at 1 DWPD over five years. SED security — TCG Opal 2.0 / Ruby SSC self-encryption with instant crypto erase, so decommissioning is a key-destroy, not a multi-pass wipe. Power loss protection plus end-to-end data correction on every capacity. OCP Datacenter NVMe SSD v2.0 alignment for hyperscale qualification. 15 mm 2.5-inch U.2 — a drop-in replacement in existing PCIe 5.0 backplanes, and backward compatible with PCIe 4.0 and 3.0 hosts.
Applications
Hyperscale and cloud storage nodes; big data / IoT analytics clusters; OLTP and relational databases; virtualised and containerised infrastructure; streaming media and CDN edge caching; AI training data pipelines where reads dominate; storage arrays requiring SED compliance and crypto-erase decommissioning.
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