KCMY1RUG7T68

• 7.68TB capacity, 2.5-Inch Form Factor
• PCIe 5.0 NVMe Interface
• 14, 000MB/S Sequential read, 6, 750MB/S Sequential Write
• 2.45M IOPS Random read, 300K IOPS Random Write
• 1 DWPD Endurance (read-Intensive tier)
• 112-Layer BiCS 3D TLC NAND
• 2.5 Million Hour MTBF; 1000g Shock Rating
• 0C to 73C Operating range; 25W active, 5W Idle

The KCMY1RUG7T68 is a Kioxia CM7-R series 7.68TB enterprise NVMe solid state drive in a 2.5-inch form factor, built on 112-layer BiCS 3D TLC NAND. It is listed with a PCIe 5.0 NVMe interface and rated at 14, 000MB/s sequential read and 6, 750MB/s sequential write, with 2.45M IOPS random read and 300K IOPS random write. Endurance is 1 drive write per day, MTBF is 2.5 million hours, and the drive operates from 0C to 73C drawing 25W active and 5W idle. The R suffix denotes the read-intensive endurance tier of the CM7 family.

Enterprise NVMe at PCIe 5.0 speeds is bought for workloads where the storage tier, not the CPU, is the bottleneck, and the 1 DWPD read-intensive rating targets datasets that are read far more often than they are rewritten. That maps to AI and machine learning training and inference data pipelines, analytics and data warehouse nodes, content delivery and media serving, virtualisation and container hosts, and read-heavy database and caching tiers. The 2.5-inch form factor with hot-plug NVMe backplanes is the standard bay in enterprise rack servers, and the 2.5 million hour MTBF and 1000g shock rating reflect continuous-duty datacentre service rather than client use. Buyers are server OEMs and ODMs, hyperscale and enterprise datacentre operators, storage-array vendors, and system integrators.