Reference Guide

Dell Express Flash CD5 Specications and
Information
Table 1. CD5 technical specications
Features Description
Media type 3D TLC NAND
Capacities/form factors 960 GB U.2
1.92 TB U.2, qualied, not shipped (QNS)
3.84 TB U.2
7.68 TB U.2 (QNS)
User-addressable 512-byte sectors 960 GB: 1,875,385,008
1.92 TB: 3,750,748,848
3.84 TB: 7,501,476,528
7.68 TB: 15,002,931,888
Host bus interface PCIe Gen 3.0 x4
Device protocol NVM Express 1.3
Bootable device Yes, UEFI mode only
Hot-swap support Yes
I/O operations per second, 4K random read 960 GB: up to 305,000 IOPS
1.92 TB: up to 270,000 IOPS
3.84 TB: up to 465,000 IOPS
7.68 TB: up to 550,000 IOPS
I/O operations per second, 4K random read 960 GB: up to 20,000 IOPS
1.92 TB: up to 20,000 IOPS
3.84 TB: up to 40,000 IOPS
7.68 TB: up to 50,000 IOPS
Endurance rating (TBW) 960 GB: 876 TB,0.5 DWPD
1.92 TB: 1752 TB, 0.5 DWPD
3.84 TB: 4485 TB, 0.64 DWPD
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