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KIOXIA CD8-R Series
Data Center NVMe™ Read-intensive SSD
The CD8-R Series is a read-intensive data center NVMe™ SSD that is optimized to support a broad range of scale-out and cloud applications, including big data/IoT, online transaction processing, and virtualization. Built with a PCIe® 4.0 (16 GT/s x4) interface, CD8-R Series SSDs deliver consistent performance up to 1,250K IOPS (random read) and 200K IOPS (random write).
Featuring KIOXIA 112-layer BiCS FLASH™ 3D TLC flash memory, CD8-R 2.5-inch form factor SSDs deliver 1 DWPD (Drive Writes Per Day) of endurance and storage capacities up to 15.36 TB in a 2.5-inch form factor, making them well-suited for hyperscale data center applications.
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Key Features
Open Compute Project Datacenter NVMe™ SSD specification v2.0 support (not all requirements)
Single-port design, optimized for data center class workloads
Consistent performance and reliability for demanding 24x7 environments
Designed for high-density storage deployments
Power loss protection (PLP) and end-to-end data correction
Security options: SIE, SED[1][2][3][4]
Key Applications
- Hyperscale
- IoT and big data analytics
- Online transaction processing (OLTP)
(transactional and relational databases) - Virtualized environments
- Streaming media and content delivery networks
Specifications
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Base Model Number | KCD81RUG960G | KCD81RUG1T92 | KCD81RUG3T84 | KCD81RUG7T68 | KCD81RUG15T3 |
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SIE Model Number | KCD8XRUG960G | KCD8XRUG1T92 | KCD8XRUG3T84 | KCD8XRUG7T68 | KCD8XRUG15T3 |
SED Model Number | KCD8DRUG960G | KCD8DRUG1T92 | KCD8DRUG3T84 | KCD8DRUG7T68 | KCD8DRUG15T3 |
Capacity | 960 GB | 1,920 GB | 3,840 GB | 7,680 GB | 15,360 GB |
Basic Specifications | |||||
Form Factor | 2.5-inch, 15mm thickness | ||||
lnterface | PCIe® 4.0, NVMe™ 1.4 | ||||
Maximum Interface Speed | 64 GT/s (PCIe® Gen4 x4) | ||||
Flash Memory Type | BiCS FLASH™ TLC | ||||
Performance (Up to) | |||||
Sustained 128 KiB Sequential Read | 7,200 MB/s | 7,100 MB/s | 6,600 MB/s | ||
Sustained 128 KiB Sequential Write | 1,800 MB/s | 3,500 MB/s | 3,800 MB/s | 6,000 MB/s | |
Sustained 4 KiB Random Read | 1,000K IOPS | 1,250K IOPS | 1,150K IOPS | 1,050K IOPS | |
Sustained 4 KiB Random Write | 80K IOPS | 150K IOPS | 195K IOPS | 200K IOPS | 195K IOPS |
Power Requirements | |||||
Supply Voltage | 12 V ± 10 %, 3.3 V ± 15 % | ||||
Power Consumption (Active) | 11 W typ. | 13 W typ. | 14 W typ. | 19 W typ. | 20 W typ. |
Power Consumption (Ready) | 5 W typ. | ||||
Reliability | |||||
MTTF | 2,500,000 hours | ||||
Warranty | 5 years | ||||
DWPD | 1 | ||||
Dimensions | |||||
Height | 15 mm +0 / -0.5 mm | ||||
Width | 69.85 mm ± 0.25 mm | ||||
length | 100.45 mm Max | ||||
Weight | 130 g Max | ||||
Environmental | |||||
Temperature (Operating) | 0 °C to 75 °C | 0 °C to 74 °C | |||
Temperature(Non-operating) | -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 ) |
- Product image may represent a design model.
- Definition of capacity: KIOXIA Corporation defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
- GT/s: Giga Transfers per second.
- A kibibyte (KiB) means 2^10, or 1,024 bytes.
- MTTF (Mean Time to Failure) is not a guarantee or estimate of product life; it is a statistical value related to mean failure rates for a large number of products which may not accurately reflect actual operation. Actual operating life of the product may be different from the MTTF.
- DWPD: Drive Writes Per Day. One full drive write per day means the drive can be written and re-written to full capacity once a day every day for the specified lifetime. Actual results may vary due to system configuration, usage and other factors.
- Read and write speed may vary depending on various factors such as host devices, software (drivers, OS etc.), and read/write conditions.
- IOPS: Input Output Per Second (or the number of I/O operations per second).
- Temperature (operating): Specified by the composite temperature reported by SMART.
- [1] The Sanitize Instant Erase (SIE), Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) optional models are available.
- [2] SIE option supports Crypto Erase, which is a standardized feature defined by NVM Express Inc.
- [3] SED supports TCG Opal and Ruby SSCs. It has a few unsupported TCG Opal features. For more details, please make inquiries through "Contact us" .
- [4] Optional security feature compliant drives are not available in all countries due to export and local regulations.
- All information provided here is subject to change without prior notice.
- PCIe is a registered trademark of PCI-SIG.
- NVMe is a registered or unregistered mark of NVM Express, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
- Other company names, product names, and service names may be trademarks of their respective companies.
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