Endurance / application area Mainstream (mixed workloads ~ 3 DWPD) Capacity 960 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 Cache, vSAN 7.0 All Flash Capacity, vSAN 7.0 Hybrid Cache, vSAN 8.0 All Flash Cache, vSAN 8.0 All Flash Capacity, vSAN 8.0 Hybrid Cache Read IOPS 97 k Write IOPS 60 k Read throughput 550 MB/s Write throughput 530 MB/s Bandwith 6 Gb/s