Samsung MZ4LB15THMLA-00003 User Manual

Samsung

PM983 NGSFF

NVMe™ SSD

SmartFlexibility,EnhancedScalability

Product Brief

Highlights

Hyperscalability

Astheindustry’sfirst16terabyte(TB)NGSFF,thePM983 provides up to 576TB system capacity ina1Userver.

Outstanding performance

ThePM983is1,000 times fasterthananSASHDDin randomread/writeandthreetimesbetterperforming thana2.5inchSASSSDinsystem.

Increased compatibility

TheNGSFFformfactorisabletoreplaceanM.2 or2.5 inch SSD/HDD withoutmajorchangesordifficulty.

Exceptionalvalue

Advancedfeatureswithhot-swapcapabilitiesand indicatorLEDsprovideeasyfront-accessibility.

TheNGSFFformfactorincludesfourscrewholestobe attachedtotheheatsinkforbetterthermalcharacteristics.

IndicatorLEDs		Screwholes formetal tray,
		heat sink

5mm.30

110.0mm

Overview

TheSamsungPM983NGSFFtakessolid-statedrives(SSDs)tothenextlevel ofmemorystoragecapacityandIOPS(input/outputoperationspersecond) performance.Measuringonly30.5mmx110mmx4.38mm,theNGSFF formfactoroffersthreetimesthecapacityofa2.5inchwhilemaintaining serviceabilityinanM.2size.

Equallyimportant,the PM983 provides hyper-scale data centerserverswith substantiallybetterperformance and scaling options. This makes it an ideal choice forenterprise-level applications such as content delivery networks (CDN), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), shared hosting, NoSQLdatabases, andclouddatastorage.

As a pioneerin NVMe SSDs, Samsung has been delivering the advantages of industrystandard NVMe performance longerthan anyone else. Samsung also has the advantage of being a vertically integrated supplierof SSDs, providingthehighestlevelsofquality.

The highest density form factor

By building the NGSFF form factorforSSDs in1U servers, the Samsung PM983 provides maximum system density. The NGSFF form factor can support twice the drive capacityof contemporary2.5 inch 7mm-thick SSDs, and up to four-times the capacity of contemporary M.2 SSDs. Furthermore, theNGSFFformfactorallowsupto36front-accessibleSSDstofitinasingle 1U server. (The maximum numberof NGSFF SSD could be increased more depending on heat removal scheme efficiencyin serversystem.). Compared to a typical 2U serverusing 24 2.5 inch SSDs, the NGSFF allows three times the numberof front-accessible SSDs perrack unit. With a combination of higherdrivecapacityandhighersystem-leveldensity,theNGSFFenablesup to1.5timesthestoragecapacityof2.5inch32TBSSDs.

Taking Server Storage into the New Dimension

[Front - accessible Drives per Rack Unit]

NGSFF SSD			36
2.5 inch SSD
	12

[System Density per Rack Unit]

NGSFF SSD					576TB
2.5 inch 15mmT SSD
2.5 inch 7mmT SSD
	96TB
M.2 SSD
		144TB

[Drive Capacity]

NGSFF SSD				16TB
2.5 inch 15mmT SSD
				32TB
2.5 inch 7mmT SSD
		8TB
M.2 SSD
	4TB

Demonstrated performance

UsingtheSamsungPM98316TBNGSFFSSDinsteadof4TBM.2drives ina1Uservercanincreasethestoragecapacityofthesystembyfour times.Infact,Samsunghasdemonstratedareferenceserversystem thatdelivers576TBina1Urack,using36unitsof16TBNGSFFSSD.

The1Ureferencesystemcanprocessabout10millionrandomread IOPS,whichtriplestheIOPSperformanceofa1Userverequipped with2.5-inchSSDs.Apetabytecapacitycanbeachievedusingonly twoofthe576TBsystemsina2Userver.

Designed for at-scale data centers

Tomeetthedemandforhigh-utilization,high-dutycycledatacenters, theSamsungPM983SSDusesfirmwarethatprioritizesqualityof service(QoS)forsustainedrandomworkloads,helpingtokeepall virtualmachinesrunningsmoothly.Thefirmwareisalsooptimized foralways-on,always-busyworkloadstosupportquickresponseto incomingworkrequests.ThePM983leveragesthesamecontroller andNANDflashmemoryashigh-volumelaptopPCs,allowingdata centerstodeployNVMeSSDsatscale.

Enterprise-level power loss protection

TheSamsungPM983SSDhasbeendesignedtopreventdataloss resultingfromunexpectedpowershutdownswithitspower-loss protectionarchitecture.Upondetectionofpowerfailure,theSSD immediatelyusesthestoredenergyfromtantalumcapacitorsto provideenoughtimetotransferthecacheddatainDRAMtothe flashmemory,forprotectionagainstlossofdata.

Samsung PM983 NGSFF NVMe™ SSDspecifications

User Capacity1	15.36 TB* / 7.68 TB* / 3.84 TB
Physical Capacity2	16 TB* / 8 TB* / 4 TB
Form Factor	NGSFF
Dimension (W X L X H)	30.50 X 110.00 X 4.38 mm
Interface	PCIe Gen 3 x4 @ 32 Gb/s
Sequential Read (128 KB)3	Up to 3100 MB/s4
Sequential Write (128 KB)3	Up to 2000 MB/s4
Random Read (4 KB, QD32)3	Up to 540,000 IOPS
Random Write (4 KB, QD32)3	Up to 50,000 IOPS
Reliability (MTBF)5	2 Million Hours
Reliability (UBER)6	1 sector per1017 bits read
Endurance (DWPD)7	1.3 drive write per day within 3 years
Allowable Voltage	12V ± 10%
Average Power Consumption8	Active Read/Write Max. 9.0/11.5W, Idle : 3.6W
Weight	Max. 22g
Operating Temperature9	0 - 70°C

1. 1MB=1,000,000Bytes,1GB=1,000,000,000Bytes,unformatted Capacity.Useraccessiblecapacitymayvarydependingonoperating environmentandformatting.

*15.36TB(16TB)and7.68TB(8TB)arescheduledtobeinmass productionfromSep2018.However,thisschedulemaychange withoutnotice.

2.Thecontentrelatedtothecapacityiswrittenbasedonthephysical capacity(noover-provisioning).

3.Based on PCI Express Gen 3 x4, Random performance measured using FIO 2.1.3 in Linux RHEL 6.6 (Kernel 3.14.29)with 4KB (4,096 bytes) of datatransfersize in queue depth 32 by4workers and Sequential performancewith128KB (131,072bytes) of data transfersize in queue depth 32 by1worker.Actualperformancemayvarydependingonuseconditionsandenvironment.

4.1MB/sec=1,000,000bytes/secwasusedinsequentialperformance.

5.Mean Time between Failures (MTBF) is the estimated time between failures occurring during SSDoperation.

6.Uncorrectable Bit ErrorRate (UBER) is a metric forthe rate of occurrence of data errors, equal to the number of data errors per bits read as specified in the JESD218 document of JEDEC standard.

7.The endurance of SSD in enterprise application is defined as the maximum numberof drive writes perday (DWPD) that can meet the requirements specified in the JESD218 document of JEDECstandard.

8.ActivepowerismeasuredusingIOMeter2006onWindowsServer2012.

9.Operating Temperature is measured at the hottest point on the case. Sufficient airflow is recommended to be operated properly on heavier workloads wthin device operating temperature.

For more information

FormoreinformationaboutSamsungPM983NGSFFNVMe™SSDs, visit www.samsung.com/semiconductor.

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