Samsung MZWLJ15THALA-00007 15.36 TB PM1733 PCIe Gen4 x4 U.2 (2.5") Read Intensive Solid State Drive

General

Brand	Samsung
Model	PM1733
Capacity	15.36 TB
Usage Class	Read Intensive

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe Gen4 x4
Total Interface Bandwidth	64 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	U.2 (2.5")

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	Samsung V-NAND 5th-Gen 92-layer 3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	1
Total Bytes Written	28032 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	7000 MB/s
Sequential Write	3800 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	1450000
Random Write IOPS	135000
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	MZWLJ15THALA-00003

Engineer's Note

The Samsung PM1733 MZWLJ15THALA-00007 packs 15.36TB of 5th-Gen 92-layer V-NAND TLC into a PCIe Gen4 x4 U.2 drive, delivering up to 7,000/3,800 MB/s and 1.45M/135K IOPS for dense virtualization, scale-out storage, and read-intensive database tiers. Compared with the earlier MZWLJ15THALA-00003, the -00007 is the later qualified build of the same PM1733 platform, giving you a drop-in refresh path that preserves the proven 28,032 TBW endurance and high-performance profile while improving lifecycle alignment for ongoing fleet deployments.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 28,032 TBW and 1 DWPD, the MZWLJ15THALA-00007 is built to handle a full drive write per day across its warranty life, which is more than sufficient for typical enterprise boot, caching, and mixed read/write workloads. In practical terms, under normal system-disk or mainstream server usage, this level of endurance provides long-term write headroom and helps ensure worry-free operation over many years. As an enterprise SSD, it includes power loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during unexpected power interruptions, reducing the risk of corruption and improving system integrity. Its UBER of 1.0E-17 and 2 million-hour MTBF indicate a very low probability of unrecoverable bit errors and strong overall reliability, giving procurement teams confidence for business-critical deployments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 x4 interface gives this drive enough host bandwidth to keep modern database, virtualization, and AI servers fed with data instead of stalling behind the storage bus.
2. Its sequential read performance is ideal for accelerating large file streaming, backup restores, analytics scans, and rapid dataset or VM image loading in enterprise environments.
3. The exceptionally strong random read capability enables very high VM density and fast response for read-intensive workloads such as OLTP databases, metadata services, and content delivery platforms.
4. With enterprise-class latency in the tens of microseconds, the drive helps applications deliver more consistent QoS and faster transaction response under mixed workload pressure.
5. The combination of 1 DWPD endurance and Samsung 5th-Gen 92-layer 3D TLC V-NAND makes it a balanced choice for always-on enterprise deployments that need solid daily write tolerance, dependable longevity, and cost-efficient flash capacity.

Capacity Sweet

Reference capacities in the same series: - Lower capacity: 7.68 TB - Higher capacity: 30.72 TB Capacity positioning analysis: Within this SSD family, the 15.36 TB model is the practical sweet spot. Compared with the 7.68 TB version, it gives noticeably more headroom for data growth, retention policies, and workload bursts without changing the familiar enterprise-class performance profile. Compared with the 30.72 TB option, it usually offers a better balance of acquisition cost, usable capacity, and deployment efficiency, while keeping sequential and random performance in the same range. It is well suited for medium-scale virtualization clusters, such as hosting boot and application storage for roughly 150 to 250 business VMs.

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