Samsung MZXL57T6HALA-00AH3 7.68 TB PM1733 PCIe Gen4 x8 HHHL Read Intensive Solid State Drive

General

Brand	Samsung
Model	PM1733
Capacity	7.68 TB
Usage Class	Read Intensive

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe Gen4 x8
Total Interface Bandwidth	128 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	HHHL

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	Samsung V-NAND 5th-Gen TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	1
Total Bytes Written	14016 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	8000 MB/s
Sequential Write	3800 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	1500000
Random Write IOPS	135000
Average Latency	95 μs

Reliability

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

Part Number

MPN	MZPLK7T6HMLA-00005

Engineer's Note

Compared with the previous-generation MZPLK7T6HMLA-00005, the Samsung PM1733 MZXL57T6HALA-00AH3 advances to PCIe Gen4 x8 and 5th-Gen V-NAND TLC, delivering up to 8,000/3,800 MB/s and 1,500,000/135,000 IOPS for a clear step up in bandwidth and transaction density. At 7.68 TB with 1 DWPD and 14,016 TBW, it is a strong fit for high-throughput virtualization, scale-out database, and analytics tiers that need a better balance of endurance, capacity, and read-optimized performance than earlier enterprise PCIe Gen3 drives.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 14,016 TBW and 1 DWPD, the MZXL57T6HALA-00AH3 is built to handle consistent daily writes across its service life, making it well suited for enterprise boot, read-intensive, and mixed-use deployments. In typical system-disk or infrastructure workloads, this level of endurance translates into many years of dependable operation with substantial write headroom, giving buyers confidence in long-term usability. For enterprise 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 unplanned recovery events. Its ultra-low UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates very strong data integrity and operational stability, which is critical for business systems where consistency and availability matter.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The full-width PCIe Gen4 host interface unlocks enough bandwidth to keep modern database, virtualization, and analytics servers fed without the storage link becoming the bottleneck.
2. Its class-leading sequential read performance accelerates large-block workloads such as checkpoint recovery, data-lake scans, and rapid dataset loading for AI and HPC environments.
3. The extremely high random read capability enables dense VM farms, metadata-heavy platforms, and low-latency online services to sustain massive parallel access with fewer drives.
4. The enterprise endurance profile supports steady daily rewrite activity across the warranty period, making it a practical fit for mixed-use infrastructure rather than read-only archival tiers.
5. Samsung’s fifth-generation TLC V-NAND, paired with very low typical latency, helps deliver predictable QoS and fast response times for transactional applications where tail-latency control matters.

Capacity Sweet

For MPN MZXL57T6HALA-00AH3 (7.68 TB), the nearest lower capacity in the same series is 3.84 TB, and the nearest higher capacity is 15.36 TB. In this product family, sequential read/write throughput and random IOPS are generally positioned at similar enterprise-grade levels across these capacities. At 7.68 TB, this SSD sits at the sweet spot of the series. Compared with 3.84 TB, it gives much better headroom for data growth, denser VM placement, and fewer drive slots consumed. Compared with 15.36 TB, it keeps acquisition cost and replacement budget more controlled while still delivering essentially the same enterprise performance profile. This makes 7.68 TB especially well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, mixed database nodes, or all-flash storage pools supporting around 40 to 60 business applications.

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