- Dual-port NVMe 1.3c compliant controller
- 96-layer 3D TLC NAND
- Enterprise features
NVMe adoption in the data center continues to grow as modern applications and workloads demand more performance. Performance NVMe SSDs are designed for primary storage for HPC servers and primary storage in external storage arrays. Performance NVMe SSDs target cloud compute and enterprise workloads that require low latency to data and high availability of data. These applications include real-time data analytics, cloud computing, OLTP/OLAP databases, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), pattern recognition and virtualization. The Ultrastar DC SN840 is Western Digital's 3rd generation of performance NVMe SSD for data center with PCIe Gen 3.1 (dual-port), NVMe 1.3, providing high read / write performance.