Kingston DC600M 7.68TB SEDC600M-7680G Enterprise SATA SSD 2.5-inch 560 MB/s Read 1 DWPD 14016 TBW
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Kingston DC600M 7.68TB — Enterprise Mixed-Use SATA SSD, 1 DWPD, 14,016 TBW
7.68TB capacity1 DWPD mixed use14,016 TBW enduranceHardware power loss protection
The Kingston DC600M is a data-centre SATA SSD built for mixed-use server workloads, and this is the 7.68TB model — the largest capacity in the line. It reads at up to 560 MB/s and writes at up to 530 MB/s, delivers 94,000 random read and 34,000 random write IOPS in steady state, and is rated at 1 drive write per day for five years — 14,016 TBW derived from the JEDEC enterprise workload. Nearly eight terabytes on a SATA bay is what this drive is for: capacity in a chassis that has no NVMe backplane, with the endurance and power loss protection a server needs.
Compatibility — check before buying:
This is a standard 2.5-inch 7 mm SATA drive, so it fits any 2.5-inch SATA bay and any SATA port, in a server or a desktop. That makes it the lowest-risk drive in Kingston’s enterprise range to fit. Three things to check anyway. A 9.5 mm-only caddy may need a spacer for a 7 mm drive. SATA 6 Gb/s caps the drive at about 560 MB/s whatever the host — if you need more, the answer is NVMe, not a faster SATA drive. And the one that costs money: the DC600M has no encryption at all. If a compliance requirement calls for a self-encrypting drive, the part you need is the DC600ME, which is the same drive with TCG Opal 2.0 and AES-256 added. The two part numbers differ by two characters and are very easy to mis-order. Tell us the server model and whether encryption is required, and we will confirm the right part before you order.
Best For
✓ Mixed read and write server workloads
✓ Virtualisation hosts and database servers
✓ Replacing enterprise SATA drives in an existing array
✓ Boot and cache drives in racked servers
✓ Systems with no NVMe backplane
✓ Workloads that need published steady-state IOPS
Key Features
1 DWPD and 14,016 TBW, on the JEDEC workload
Endurance is quoted per capacity and against the JEDEC Enterprise Workload JESD219A, not a friendly sequential test. One full drive write a day — 7.68 terabytes — every day, for five years. That is the figure a capacity-planning spreadsheet actually needs.
Steady-state IOPS, and a capacity caveat
94,000 random read and 34,000 random write IOPS in steady state. Worth knowing that Kingston publishes lower random write IOPS as the capacity rises in this line — 78,000 at 1.92TB, 59,000 at 3.84TB, 34,000 here. Counter-intuitive, and it is exactly what Kingston publishes per capacity, so we print it rather than carry a smaller drive’s figure across.
Hardware power loss protection
Kingston publishes hardware-based power loss protection on this drive. When the rack loses power mid-write, data already acknowledged to the host is committed rather than lost. It is the single feature that most separates an enterprise SSD from a desktop one.
Predictable latency and 2 million hours MTBF
Kingston publishes 99.999-percentile QoS latency for this capacity — 240 µs read and 170 µs write, the best in the line — alongside a 2-million-hour MTBF and a UBER of 10⁻¹⁷. Consistency under load is what a fleet is built on.
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
Singular Expert Insight
The honest way to judge an enterprise SATA drive is to ignore the 560 MB/s, because every SATA SSD ever made reaches roughly that. The three numbers that matter here are the 1 DWPD / 7,008 TBW endurance on the JEDEC workload, the steady-state random IOPS rather than burst figures, and the presence of hardware power loss protection. That last one is why a drive like this exists: a consumer SSD that loses power mid-write can lose data the host believed was committed, which in a database is a corrupted table rather than an inconvenience. Where SATA itself is the limit, the answer is not a faster SATA drive but a different interface — Kingston’s DC3000ME is the U.2 NVMe drive in the same mixed-use class, though it needs a U.2 backplane and server airflow. See our full enterprise and server SSD range, and if this is going into a NAS rather than a server, our NAS and RAID appliances section lists what each chassis takes.
Buyer’s Guide
Buy it if
You need maximum SATA capacity with real enterprise behaviour: 7.68TB, 1 DWPD, 14,016 TBW, hardware power loss protection and a five-year term, in a chassis that has no NVMe backplane.
Skip it if
A compliance requirement calls for a self-encrypting drive — the DC600M has none, and the DC600ME is the part you want. Skip it too if the workload is write-heavy beyond 1 DWPD, or if you actually need NVMe throughput.
Also consider
The 3.84TB DC600M if random write IOPS matter more than capacity per bay. The Kingston DC600ME if encryption is required. A U.2 NVMe drive if the chassis has the backplane for it.
Features - Kingston - SEDC600M/7680G
Form Factor
- 2.5"
Interface
- SATA
More Details
Product Code
04:430965
EAN Code
0740617334951
Manufacturer
Kingston
Technical specifications
Capacity
8TB