General

Brand	Samsung
Model	860 EVO
Capacity	2TB
Usage Class	Client

Interface

Host Interface	SATA
Total Interface Bandwidth	6 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	M.2 2280

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	TLC V-NAND
Drive Writes Per Day	0.32
Total Bytes Written	1200 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	550 MB/s
Sequential Write	520 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	97000
Random Write IOPS	88000
Average Latency	50 μs

Reliability

Mean Time Between Failures	1.5 Million Hours
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate	1.0×10⁻¹⁷
Power Loss Protection	No

Part Number

MPN	MZ-N5E500

Engineer's Note

Compared with the previous-generation MZ-N5E500, the MZ-N6E2T0 860 EVO expands capacity from 500GB to 2TB and delivers up to 1,200 TBW endurance, providing 4× the storage footprint with far greater write headroom for long-life client and workstation builds. Built on TLC V-NAND, it also sustains near-SATA-limit performance at 550/520 MB/s and up to 97,000/88,000 IOPS, making it a stronger choice than older SATA SSDs for mixed OS, application, and content-library workloads where both consistency and endurance matter.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 1200 TBW, the MZ-N6E2T0 is designed to handle about 640 GB of writes per day over five years, which is more than sufficient for typical OS, office, and general business workloads. In practical terms, this makes it a dependable choice for system drives and read-heavy client or edge applications, where it can deliver long service life without endurance concerns under normal use. Its UBER rating of 1.0E-15 indicates a very low probability of unrecoverable bit errors, supporting strong data integrity, while the 1.5 million hour MTBF reflects solid overall hardware reliability. This model does not include power loss protection, so it is best deployed in systems with stable power or upstream protection such as a UPS, rather than in write-critical environments that require in-flight data protection during sudden outages.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The SATA interface and near bus-limit sequential throughput make this drive a drop-in upgrade for existing enterprise servers and storage arrays, accelerating large-file movement, backups, and VM image loading without requiring platform changes.
2. Its strong random-read capability supports high-concurrency workloads such as boot storms, metadata access, and read-heavy databases, helping applications stay responsive as user counts rise.
3. The endurance profile is well suited to read-centric enterprise deployments, giving operators a cost-efficient option for content delivery, reference data, analytics reads, and virtual desktop environments with moderate daily writes.
4. TLC V-NAND provides a practical balance of capacity, efficiency, and reliability, enabling denser storage footprints while keeping power and acquisition costs under control in large-scale deployments.
5. The low typical latency helps reduce storage wait time at the transaction level, improving QoS consistency for latency-sensitive applications such as virtualization, web services, and OLTP reads.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 960GB Higher capacity reference: 3.84TB The 2TB class sits at the sweet spot in this SSD family. Compared with the 960GB model, it gives much better headroom for OS images, application data, and steady growth, reducing the need for early drive expansion. Compared with the 3.84TB option, it delivers nearly the same enterprise-class sequential and random performance while keeping acquisition cost and $/workload more balanced. This makes it an excellent fit for mid-scale virtualization clusters, such as shared storage for roughly 40 to 60 general-purpose virtual machines or mixed database-and-application nodes.

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