Design Flexibility

With future-ready scalable NVMe architecture the Western Digital PC SN520 NVMe SSD offers a robust solution to fuel generations of innovative IoT applications. Scalable NVMe offers a significant performance increase over SATA SSDs while further optimizing low power consumption to the low level of 2.5mW.

This NVMe SSD enables greater design flexibility for IoT and embedded customers who seek a cost effective small form factor reliable and rugged storage device with low capacity points from 128GB to 512GB.



Robust Construction Suited for IoT

The Western Digital PC SN520 NVMe SSD supporting PCIe Gen3 x2 is designed for applications that have a limited number of PCIe lanes available for storage however require both high performance and low power. Partners that could benefit from NVMe technology include:

Commercial:

Interactive kiosks ATMs and Point-of-Sales (POS) Multi-Functional Printers (MFP) and industries that require high-volume transaction processing

Edge Equipment and IoT Gateway:

Such as network equipment industrial machinery medical equipment or embedded PC that need the high capacities to capture the floor's and sensors' data and the high IOPS to support the system's data analytics

Media Content Delivery and Streaming:

In-flight entertainment systems train control and monitoring systems data recorder and video surveillance that require high capacity and reliability

Versatile Options for IoT

Equipped with a fully integrated solution which includes in-house controller 64-layer 3D NAND firmware and testing Western Digital provides longevity supply and a robust and reliable design.

Designed with Western Digital's in-house tiered-caching NVMe architecture the Western Digital PC SN520 NVMe SSD delivers high performance with sequential read and write speeds up to 1700MB/s and 1400MB/s respectively and high endurance up to 300 TBW all of which are available in a variety of small form factors: M.2 2230 M.2 2242 M.2 2280.

Summary

Western Digital PC SN520 NVMe SSD in variety of small single-sided form factors such as M.2 2230 M.2 2242 and M.2 2280 enables customers to build ultra-thin ultra-small boards and systems that address multiple IoT segments without sacrificing performance and power consumption.