Kioxia EM6-R Series 3.84TB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Read-Intensive SSD

The Kioxia EM6-R Series 3.84TB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" SSD (KHK6XRSE3T84) is a read-intensive enterprise solid-state drive built on Kioxia's BiCS FLASH 3D TLC NAND technology. Designed for high-density, read-dominant server and storage environments, the EM6-R Series delivers consistent sequential read performance up to 560 MB/s and sequential write performance up to 510 MB/s over the industry-standard SATA 6Gb/s interface. The drive incorporates advanced error-correction and data integrity mechanisms — including end-to-end data path protection — ensuring reliability across sustained, high-throughput datacenter operations.

With a 3.84TB capacity in the compact 2.5-inch, 7mm z-height form factor, the EM6-R is engineered for environments where storage density and read performance take priority over write-intensive workloads. The drive carries an endurance rating of 1 Drive Write Per Day (DWPD) over its rated lifespan, making it well-suited for workloads that are predominantly read-oriented such as content repositories, analytics platforms, and hyperscale web serving. Power-loss protection circuitry safeguards in-flight data during unexpected power interruptions, a critical requirement for enterprise-grade deployments.

The EM6-R Series is positioned as a scalable building block for modern datacenter infrastructure, AI inference serving, and cloud storage tiers where total capacity per rack unit and per-watt efficiency are primary optimization targets. Its SATA interface ensures broad compatibility with existing server platforms and JBOD enclosures without requiring PCIe or NVMe ecosystem changes, enabling straightforward integration into large-scale, cost-sensitive storage deployments across enterprise IT, colocation, and hyperscale environments.

Ideal for

• High-density read-intensive object storage and content delivery repositories in hyperscale and colocation datacenters
• AI and machine learning inference workloads requiring fast, sustained sequential read throughput to feed GPU pipelines
• Database read replicas and analytics query acceleration where read-to-write ratios strongly favor read operations
• Virtualized server environments and VDI boot-tier storage leveraging the drive's consistent low-latency read performance
• Web-scale and cloud-native workloads requiring large-capacity SATA SSDs with broad platform compatibility and high reliability
• Warm-tier storage in tiered datacenter architectures, replacing high-capacity spinning disk with flash while maintaining SATA ecosystem compatibility

Technical specifications

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