The NVMe SSD That Kioxia Quietly Ships to Every Hyperscaler — Now Available to Enterprise Buyers

Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) does not market its enterprise SSDs the way Samsung does. It does not run flashy launch events. It supplies the NAND and controllers that power hyperscaler and OEM storage platforms — which is why the Kioxia CD8P is the drive that many enterprise buyers have never heard of, but every hyperscaler has tested. The CD8P 7.68TB is a PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSD rated at 2 DWPD, built on Kioxia 112-layer BiCS FLASH 3D TLC, with a 1,050K read IOPS and 250K write IOPS profile that positions it between read-intensive (1 DWPD) and write-intensive (3 DWPD) livelli. It is the mixed-use drive for virtualization, banche dati, and AI training data pipelines.

Specifiche tecniche

Parametro	Specifica
Capacità	7.68tubercolosi (Anche: 960GB, 1.92tubercolosi, 3.84tubercolosi, 15.36tubercolosi)
Fattore di forma	2.5-pollici U.2 (15mm)
Interfaccia	PCIe 4.0 x4, Nvme 1.4
Tipo NAND	Kioxia BiCS FLASH 3D TLC (112-strato)
Lettura sequenziale (128K)	Fino a 7,100 Mb/s
Scrittura sequenziale (128K)	Fino a 4,600 Mb/s
Lettura casuale (4K, QD256)	Up to 1,050K IOPS
Scrittura casuale (4K, QD256)	Up to 250K IOPS
Latenza (4K Lettura casuale, QD1)	~75 microsecondi
Latenza (4K Scrittura casuale, QD1)	~15 microsecondi
Resistenza	2 DWPD (5 anni), 28,032 TBT (7.68Modello TBC)
MTBF	2,500,000 ore
Energia (Oziare / Attivo medio / Massimo)	4.5W / 12W / 18W
Protezione dalla perdita di potenza	PLP supportato da condensatore, protezione completa del percorso dei dati
Sicurezza	Opale del GCC 2.0, Sed, AES-256, secure erase (crypto)
Fisico	100.45 X 69.85 X 15.00 mm
Temperatura	0da C a 70 C
Garanzia	5-anno limitato (produttore), 28,032 Limite TBW

CD8P vs PM9A3 vs 7450 PRO — The NVMe Mixed-Use Tier

Caratteristica	Kioxia CD8P	Samsung PM9A3	Micron 7450 PRO
Resistenza	2 DWPD	1 DWPD	1 DWPD
Random Read IOPS	1,050K	1,000K	1,000K
IOPS di scrittura casuale	250K	180K	410K
Scrittura sequenziale (sustained)	4,600 Mb/s	4,000 Mb/s	5,600 Mb/s (SLC-assisted)
NAND Layer Count	112-strato	128-strato	176-strato
Best For	Uso misto, virtualizzazione, AI pipelines	General-purpose, lettura pesante	Carichi di lavoro misti con elevata scrittura
Prezzo (relativo)	100 per cento	~90 percent	~105%.

The CD8P’s 2 DWPD endurance is the differentiator: double the PM9A3’s 1 DWPD at a price premium of only ~10 percent. For virtualization clusters where VM write workloads exceed 1 DWPD on active nodes, the CD8P delivers twice the endurance headroom at a fraction of the 3 DWPD tier cost.

Piattaforme compatibili

U.2 NVMe, compatibile con Dell R660, R760, R770, R7715, R860, R960, xFusionFusionServer V7, Lenovo ThinkSystem V3/V4. Funziona con PERC H755N, H965i, or direct PCIe passthrough.