Specifications

Overview

The Samsung PM9D3a (MZWL6960HFJA-00AW7) is the 960GB PCIe Gen5 U.2 enterprise SSD in the PM9D3a family, built on 8th-generation 3-bit V-NAND with up to 12,000 MB/s sequential read and 6,800 MB/s write.

The -00AW7 suffix identifies the Lenovo ThinkSystem OEM part number for the PM9D3a 960GB 2.5-inch hot-swap drive (Lenovo feature C0GK). As a read-intensive (1 DWPD) drive with power-loss protection and OCP 2.5 compliance, it is a cost-effective boot/OS and read-cache tier for enterprise servers.