Specifications

Overview

The Samsung PM9D3a (MZWL63T8HFLT-00AW7) is a 3.84TB PCIe Gen5 U.2 enterprise SSD built on Samsung's eighth-generation 3-bit V-NAND. It delivers up to 12,000 MB/s sequential read and 6,800 MB/s write, with random performance reaching 2,000K read IOPS and 400K write IOPS.

The -00AW7 suffix identifies this as the Lenovo ThinkSystem OEM part number for the PM9D3a 3.84TB 2.5-inch hot-swap drive (Lenovo feature C0GN). It is a read-intensive (1 DWPD) drive with power-loss protection (PLP) and OCP 2.5 compliance, suited for AI-driven, hyperscale, and cloud-scale infrastructure where Gen5 throughput and consistent latency matter.