Endurance / application area Light (read-intensive applications ~ 1 DWPD) Capacity 3.84 TB Series Samsung PM1643a Interface SAS 12Gb/s NAND type 3D-NAND TLC, 96 layers (V-NAND) Form factor 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 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 450 k Write IOPS 90 k Read throughput 2100 MB/s Write throughput 2000 MB/s Bandwith 12 Gb/s