Kioxia CM9-R 7.68TB Read Intensive NVMe PCIe Gen5 E3.S Solid State Drive

Kioxia CM9-R 7.68TB, KCM9XRJE7T68, is a mid-capacity E3.S drive for servers that take Gen5 NVMe. It is an NVMe SSD on PCIe Gen5 with Read Intensive endurance and a 1 DWPD rating.

Smaller drives like this one are useful when you want many independent devices rather than a few large ones, for instance to spread read traffic across more NVMe lanes, or to add flash in smaller steps as a dataset grows. The form factor is E3.S, so it only goes into bays built for that shape.

Read Intensive means the design assumes far more reads than writes, which suits search indexes, catalogs and reference data. The 7.68TB capacity is offered in new and refurbished condition, with a choice of 1 year or 3 years of warranty for each.