KCD8XPUG30T7

• 30.72 TB capacity, 2.5-Inch Form factor, PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe Interface
• 112-Layer BiCS 3D TLC NAND; 1 DWPD Read-Intensive Endurance
• Up to 10, 000 MB/S Sequential Read and 4, 900 MB/S Sequential Write
• 1, 600K IOPS Random read, 150K IOPS Random Write
• 24 W Active / 5.5 W Idle power; SIE Data Security Support
• 0 C to 72 C Operating range; 2.5 Million Hour MTBF; 1000g shock, 2.17g Operating Vibration

The KCD8XPUG30T7 is a Kioxia CD8P-R series enterprise NVMe SSD offering 30.72 TB of capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor on a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface. It is built on 112-layer BiCS 3D TLC NAND and is a read-intensive drive rated at 1 DWPD endurance. Kioxia specifies the KCD8XPUG30T7 at up to 10, 000 MB/s sequential read and 4, 900 MB/s sequential write, with 1, 600K IOPS random read and 150K IOPS random write. The drive draws 24 W active and 5.5 W idle, includes SIE data security, and carries a 2.5 million hour MTBF rating over a 0 C to 72 C operating range.

Read-intensive PCIe 5.0 NVMe drives at this capacity are deployed where the workload is dominated by reads and the operator is optimizing for terabytes and throughput per rack unit rather than write endurance. At 30.72 TB with 10, 000 MB/s sequential read, the KCD8XPUG30T7 targets AI and machine learning training data lakes, content delivery and media streaming, analytics and data warehouse scans, and large software-defined storage or object store nodes. The 1 DWPD rating and SIE security support fit shared enterprise and cloud infrastructure where drives are sanitized and redeployed between tenants. Typical buyers are hyperscale and cloud operators, server and storage array OEMs, and enterprise data center teams building high-density all-flash tiers.