Western Digital NVMe 1.3 compliant controller; PCIe Gen3.1x4 Western Digital BiCS4 96L 3D TLC NAND 0.8 and 2.0 DWPD Full data-loss protection MTBF rating of 2 million hours Instant Secure Erase (ISE) and AES-256 encryption The Dynamic Data Center EnvironmentIT organizations have to optimize their infrastructure for the dynamic data center environment by improving utilization of storage capacity for demanding new workloads, improving responsiveness for critical applications, maintaining uptimes and availability, and lowering their TCO. With the advent cloud architectures driving new on premise data center designs utilizing converged, hyper converged, and composable infrastructure with higher performance CPUs, traditional SATA-based storage have become the bottleneck. Whereas, NVMe-based SSDs are designed specifically to maximize performance of flash memory and are widely deployed in the public cloud offering flexibility and scalability at lower costs.The new Ultrastar DC SN640 NVMe SSD