Description Endurance / application area Capacity Series Interface NAND type Form factor Power loss protection Drive writes per day (5 years) Bandwith VMware vSAN Field of application Read IOPS Write IOPS Read throughput Write throughput Power consumption (idle)
240 GB Samsung PM893 2.5" SATA SSD Light (read-intensive applications ~ 1 DWPD) 240 GB Samsung PM893 SATA 6Gb/s 3D-NAND TLC, 128 layers (V-NAND v6) 2.5” Yes 1 DWPD 6 Gb/s vSAN 7.0 All Flash Capacity, vSAN 8.0 All Flash Capacity 97 k 15 k 550 MB/s 300 MB/s 1.3 W
480 GB Samsung PM897 2.5" SATA SSD Mainstream (mixed workloads ~ 3 DWPD) 480 GB Samsung PM897 SATA 6Gb/s 3D-NAND TLC, 128 layers (V-NAND v6) 2.5” Yes 3 DWPD 6 Gb/s vSAN 7.0 All Flash Capacity, vSAN 7.0 Hybrid Cache, vSAN 8.0 All Flash Capacity, vSAN 8.0 Hybrid Cache 97 k 60 k 560 MB/s 530 MB/s 1.4 W