Data Center NVMe™ Read Intensive SSD
KIOXIA 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, the 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, the 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.
Key Features
- PCIe®4.0, NVMe™ 1.4 specification compliant
- Open Compute Project Datacenter NVMe™ SSD specification v2.0 support (not all requirements)
- Form factor: 2.5-inch, 15mm thickness
- Proprietary KIOXIA architecture: controller, firmware and 112-layer BiCS FLASH™ 3D TLC
- 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
Key Applications
- Hyperscale
- IoT and big data analytics
- Online transaction processing (OLTP)
- (transactional and relational databases)
- Virtualized environments
- Streaming media and content delivery networks
