KIOXIA PM7-V Series KPM7VVUG1T60 - SSD - Enterprise - encrypted - 1600 GB - internal - 2.5" - SAS 24Gb/s - Self-Encrypting Drive (SED)

Product Overview

AI-generated summary

The KIOXIA PM7-V (KPM7VVUG1T60) is one of those “serious datacentre” SSDs where you’re paying for reliability and enterprise controls more than raw bragging rights. At £1,311.78 ex-VAT for 1.6TB, it’s not cheap for an internal drive, so I’d only buy it if you specifically need an enterprise encrypted SSD and you want the drive’s Self‑Encrypting Drive behaviour handled properly from day one. It’s a sensible fit for environments like virtualisation hosts, storage arrays with modern firmware support, or any server/storage stack where procurement wants encryption-at-rest out of the box and consistent operational characteristics over time.

That said, I wouldn’t pick this blindly if your main goal is simply “fast and cost-effective SSD for a server.” For many general workloads, you can often get similar everyday performance at a lower total cost with non-enterprise or differently tiered drives—especially if your platform already handles encryption at the controller/volume layer and you don’t have a compliance requirement for SED. Also, make sure your specific server/backplane and RAID/HBA ecosystem plays nicely with Kioxia’s enterprise firmware—enterprise drives can be great, but the best value only shows up when compatibility and support are sorted upfront. If you tell me what you’re deploying it in (server model / controller / workload), I can sanity-check whether this is a “right tool for the job” purchase or overkill.