Endurance / application area Light (read-intensive applications ~ 1 DWPD) Capacity 960 GB Series Samsung PM1643a Interface SAS 12Gb/s NAND type 3D-NAND TLC, 96 layers (V-NAND) Form factor 3.5”, 2.5” Power loss protection Yes Drive writes per day (5 years) 1 DWPD Power consumption (idle) 5.5 W VMware vSAN Field of application vSAN 7.0 All Flash Capacity, vSAN 8.0 All Flash Capacity Read IOPS 380 k Write IOPS 40 k Read throughput 2100 MB/s Write throughput 1000 MB/s Bandwith 12 Gb/s