Overview
IT organizations have to optimize their infrastructure for the dynamic data center environment by improving utilization of storage capacity for demanding workloads, improving responsiveness for critical applications, maintaining uptimes and availability, and lowering their TCO. With the advent cloud architectures driving new on premise data center designs utilizing converged, hyper converged, and composable infrastructure with higher performance CPUs, traditional SATA-based storage have become the bottleneck. Whereas, NVMe-based SSDs are designed specifically to maximize performance of flash memory and are widely deployed in the public cloud offering flexibility and scalability at lower costs.¦The Ultrastar DC SN640 NVMe SSD improves performance and responsiveness over the current generation DC SN630 NVMe SSD. The SN640 includes Western Digital's 3D TLC NAND and in-house NVMe 1.3 controller providing 5x read performance improvement over SATA SSDs. The DC SN640 is a cost-optimized NVMe SSDs for broad deployment into cloud/hyperscale and on-prem data centers.