Samsung MZQLB7T6HMLA-00007 7.68 TB PM983 PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3 U.2 (2.5 inch 7mm) Enterprise/Read-Intensive Solid State Drive

General

Brand	Samsung
Model	PM983
Capacity	7.68 TB
Usage Class	Enterprise/Read-Intensive

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3
Total Interface Bandwidth	32 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	U.2 (2.5 inch 7mm)

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	Samsung V4 (64L) TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	1.3
Total Bytes Written	11000 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	3200 MB/s
Sequential Write	2200 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	540000
Random Write IOPS	50000
Average Latency	85 μs

Reliability

Mean Time Between Failures	2 Million Hours
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate	1.0×10⁻¹⁷
Power Loss Protection	Yes

Part Number

MPN	MZQLW7T6HMLA-00001

Engineer's Note

Compared with the previous-generation MZQLW7T6HMLA-00001, the MZQLB7T6HMLA-00007 advances to Samsung V4 64-layer TLC and NVMe 1.3, combining 7.68 TB of usable capacity with 3,200/2,200 MB/s throughput and 11,000 TBW for a more modern, deployment-ready PCIe 3.0 x4 platform. It is a strong fit for read-heavy virtualization, scale-out storage, and cloud application tiers where 540,000/50,000 IOPS and 1.3 DWPD deliver a better density-to-endurance balance than the prior generation.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 11,000 TBW and 1.3 DWPD, the MZQLB7T6HMLA-00007 is built to handle sustained daily writes in demanding enterprise environments with substantial margin. In typical real-world use, this level of endurance is more than sufficient for long-term deployment as a system or application drive, supporting years of stable operation without endurance becoming a practical concern. For reliability, the drive includes power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during an unexpected power interruption, reducing the risk of corruption and improving service continuity. Its enterprise-grade UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates an extremely low probability of unrecoverable read errors and supports the high data integrity expected in business-critical storage deployments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3 architecture provides a mature low-overhead data path that keeps enterprise servers responsive under parallel workloads and integrates cleanly into mainstream data center platforms.
2. With sequential read performance up to 3200 MB/s, this drive accelerates large-file streaming, database backup recovery, and VM image loading to reduce application wait time.
3. Random read performance of 540,000 K IOPS enables fast access to highly fragmented data, making it well suited for read-intensive databases, virtualization clusters, and analytics tiers.
4. Rated at 1.3 DWPD, the SSD offers enterprise-grade write endurance for mixed-use deployments, supporting sustained daily overwrite activity without compromising service life.
5. Built on Samsung V4 (64L) TLC NAND with typical latency of 85 µs, it balances flash density, cost efficiency, and consistently quick response times for latency-sensitive business applications.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 3.84 TB Higher capacity reference: 15.36 TB At 7.68 TB, this SSD sits in the sweet spot of the series. Compared with the 3.84 TB version, it gives meaningfully more headroom for dataset growth, VM density, and overprovisioning flexibility without changing the familiar enterprise-class performance profile. Compared with the 15.36 TB option, it delivers a better balance of acquisition cost, usable capacity, and deployment efficiency, especially when many drives are needed per cluster. It is well suited for mid-scale virtualization, such as hosting OS and application volumes for roughly 60 to 80 mixed-workload virtual machines.

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