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