Gate charge and drive — light load on the driver
With a total gate charge of 6.7 nC at 10 V, this MOSFET needs only 67 µC per second at 10 kHz switching — that's 0.67 mA average gate current. A small gate-driver or even a microcontroller GPIO with a series resistor can switch it at moderate frequencies without a dedicated driver IC. The input capacitance is 165 pF at 25 V drain-source, which keeps the Miller plateau short and the switching losses low in a flyback or forward-converter primary-side switch.
Package and thermal — the copper pour matters
The 30 W maximum power dissipation assumes a heatsink or a substantial board copper pour — without it, the actual dissipation limit drops significantly at 150 °C junction temperature.
