KCD8XRUG7T68

• 7.68 Terabyte Capacity in a 2.5-Inch Form Factor
• PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Interface
• 112-Layer BiCS 3D TLC NAND Flash
• Sequential Read Up to 7100 Megabytes per second, Write Up to 6000
• Random Read 1.15M IOPS, Random Write 200K IOPS
• 1 DWPD endurance, Sanitize Instant Erase, 0C to 75C Operating Range

The Kioxia KCD8XRUG7T68 is a 7.68TB CD8-R Series enterprise NVMe solid state drive in a 2.5-inch form factor with a PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe interface, built on 112-layer BiCS 3D TLC NAND. It is rated for sequential reads up to 7100 MB/s and sequential writes up to 6000 MB/s, with 1.15M random read IOPS and 200K random write IOPS, at 1 DWPD endurance and a 2.5 million hour MTBF. The drive supports Sanitize Instant Erase, draws 19W active and 5W at idle, and operates from 0C to 75C with a 1000g shock rating. It is supplied in bulk packs of 30.

Mainstream read-intensive NVMe drives at 7.68TB form the volume capacity tier in datacenter and cloud servers: object and file storage back ends, virtualisation and container hosts, content delivery and caching layers, database and analytics volumes, and the data-loading path feeding AI training clusters. The 1 DWPD endurance class matches workloads that read far more than they write, where a lower cost-per-terabyte TLC drive beats a mixed-use or write-intensive part on total cost. At 19W active the drive sits comfortably inside standard hot-swap bay thermal budgets without additional airflow provisioning. Sanitize Instant Erase provides a fast cryptographic decommissioning path, which matters for lease returns and routine drive replacement under a data-handling policy.