Kioxia NVMe For Your Data Center Read Intensive Demands The Kioxia CD8-R, is your read intensive data center NVMe solid state drive that is optimized to support a large range of large scale and cloud applications, such as big data, IoT, virtualization, and online transaction processing. Offering a PCIe 4.0 with 16GT/s on a x4 PCIe channel, this Kioxia CD8-R series NVMe drives offer consistent read and write performance, sequential or random. Featuring Kioxia's 112-layer BiCS FLASH 3D TLC flash memory, a 2.5-inch for factor with 15mm of thickness and 1 DWPD of endurance. These solid state drives are very well suited to handle hyperscale data center applications.