NEW Samsung PM9D3a 960GB U.2 NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSD MZWL6960HFJA-00AW7
SKU D-0350234
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About this part
New Samsung 960 GB PM9D3a U.2 NVMe SSD, an entry PCIe 5.0 read-intensive drive on V-NAND TLC for NVMe-wired bays in Dell 14th, 15th and 16th gen servers. U.2 NVMe SSDs connect over four PCIe lanes instead of through a SAS or SATA controller, so they need an NVMe-wired bay and backplane; a SAS or SATA bay cannot run them. They are the low-latency, high-IOPS tier for databases, virtualization and caching, and a PCIe 4.0 or 5.0 drive runs at the PCIe generation the host bay provides.
Specifications
| Part number | MZWL6960HFJA-00AW7 |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 960 GB |
| Interface | NVMe, PCIe 5.0 x4 |
| Form factor | 2.5-inch SFF, 15 mm U.2 |
| Endurance | 1 DWPD, 1,752 TBW, 5 years |
| Sequential read/write | 12,000 / 1,500 MB/s Gen5; 6,400 / 1,400 Gen4 |
| Random read/write | 950K / 70K IOPS at PCIe 4.0 |
| Power loss protection | Yes |
| Condition | New |
| Warranty | 180-day |
Compatibility
It needs an NVMe-wired U.2 bay; a SAS or SATA bay or a PERC SAS port cannot run it. No tagged host has a PCIe 5.0 U.2 bay: the 14th gen servers link at PCIe 3.0 and the 15th and 16th gen servers at PCIe 4.0, and the drive runs at that generation. A Gen5 drive buys headroom, not Gen5 speed, in these servers. We match the 2.5-inch tray to your chassis. Browse matching parts for the Dell PowerEdge R650.
When to Choose This
The 960 GB PM9D3a is an NVMe boot drive: a mirrored hypervisor or OS pair with power-loss protection and AES-256 Opal encryption. Its 70K random write IOPS and 1,752 TBW suit boot and light logging, not a database volume. For a data volume step to the PM9D3a 1.92 TB, which doubles both, or to the mixed-use Solidigm D7-P5620 1.6 TB for write-heavy duty at 3 DWPD.
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