Kioxia Pushes Read-Intensive Gen5 SSDs to 61.44TB with BiCS 8 TLC

StorageReview covered Kioxia's CD9P-R, a read-intensive data-center NVMe SSD family using eighth-generation BiCS TLC NAND, Kioxia controller work, PCIe 5.0, and NVMe 2.0. The reported capacity ceiling reaches 61.44TB, with performance positioned for read-heavy enterprise workloads. For RamTrend, the item matters because higher-density enterprise SSDs show continued NAND process migration and controller integration at major suppliers. The near-term price effect is limited because this is a product review, not a supply or contract-pricing report, but it supports the view that enterprise NAND demand remains tied to capacity, performance, and AI/data-center storage refresh cycles.