Specifications

MPN

MZQL2960HCJR-00A07

Retail SKU

MZ-QL296000

Capacity

960 GB

Form Factor

U.2 2.5-inch

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4 / NVMe 1.4

Sequential Read

6,900 MB/s

Sequential Write

4,100 MB/s

Random Read

1,000K IOPS

Endurance

1 DWPD (5 years)

NAND

Samsung V-NAND TLC

Security

TCG Opal 2.0, SED

Class

Data center mixed-use

Samsung PM9A3 U.2 capacity ladder

Part NumberCapacitySeq. ReadSeq. Write
MZQL2960HCJR-00A07960 GB6,900 MB/s4,100 MB/s
MZQL21T9HCJR-00A071.92 TB6,900 MB/s4,100 MB/s
MZQL23T8HCLS-00A073.84 TB6,900 MB/s4,100 MB/s
MZQL27T6HBLA-00A077.68 TB6,900 MB/s4,100 MB/s

Use Case

The PM9A3 is the volume Gen4 data center drive in Dell, HPE and Supermicro configurations. The 960GB U.2 member is used as a mirrored boot device and for local database scratch space, and it is field-proven under vSAN and Ceph workloads at this capacity.

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