Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN640 2.5" 960 GB PCI Express

WD Ultrastar DC SN640 is designed to support the demands of data-intensive enterprise customers, with a high performance cloud tier and cost-effective consumer tier

Improve performance and reduce costs

WD Ultrastar DC SN640 2.5" 960GB PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD designed specifically for dynamic data centers

In the dynamic data center environment, IT organizations must optimize their infrastructure to meet new workload demands, improve application responsiveness, ensure uptime and availability, and lower their total cost of ownership.

Cloud architecture has driven new on-premise data center designs able to use converged, hyper-converged, and composable infrastructure with more powerful CPUs, making traditional SATA-based storage inefficient.

NVMe-based SSDs, on the other hand, are specifically designed to maximize the performance of flash memory, and they are widely deployed in cloud computing applications because they offer flexibility and scalability at a lower cost.

Ultrastar DC SN640 NVMe SSD offers improved performance over the current generation DC SN630 SSD and a range of capacities including 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, and 7.68TB (Gen3.1 x 4).

SN640 features Western Digital's industry-leading 96L BiCS4 3D TLC NAND and in-house NVMe 1.3 controller, which provide 5x performance improvements over SATA SSDs.

DC SN640 is an NVMe SSD optimized for cloud/hyperscale and on-premises deployments. A 5-year limited warranty, power-loss protection, and end-to-end data path protection are a few of the enterprise reliability features provided by the SN640.

Flexible Workload Design

• Capacity: 960 GB;
• Connection: SAS, SATA;
• Features: NVMe, Solid State;
• Form Factor: 2.5 Inch Drive;

A DC SN640 is available in two endurance classes: 0.8 DW/D and 2.2 DW/D, both for a five-year period.

The 0.80 DW/D swim lane is designed for read intensive applications while the 2 DW/D swim lane can be deployed in mixed-use workloads requiring higher performance and endurance levels over the life of the drive providing IT organizations a way to optimize for application performance.

Keeping your data safe

A greater level of security is required for data at rest due to regulatory and privacy demands.

Instant Secure Erase (ISE) features on the Ultrastar DC SN640 help safeguard data with AES-256 encryption and provide instant data deletion upon decommissioning or recommissioning the drive.

Through RSA-protected firmware downloads, Western Digital ensures that only the genuine firmware will run on the drive.