Product brief Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X Series Data Center (DC), PCI Express* (P) Worlds Most Responsive 1 Data Center SSD Solve the most demanding storage and memory challenges with the Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X Series. Every day, the amount of data created across the world is exploding to new levels. Enterprises and cloud service providers thrive on this data to make critical decisions, gain new insights from the data, and differentiate services. But, todays current storage technologies leave a technology gap in data storage tiers. DRAM is far too expensive to scale and while NAND has the capacity and cost structure to scale, it lacks sufficient performance to function in the memory space. To address the gap, a storage solution that behaves like system memory is needed. Combines Attributes of Memory and Storage The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X is the first product to combine the attributes of memory and storage. With an industry-leading combination of high throughput, low latency, high QoS and ultra-high endurance, this innovative solution is optimized to break through data access bottlenecks by providing a new data storage tier. The DC P4800X accelerates applications for fast caching and fast storage to increase scale per server and reduce transaction costs for latency sensitive workloads. In addition, the DC P4800X enables data centers to deploy bigger and more affordable datasets to gain new insights from large memory pools. High Throughput for Breakthrough Performance Realize breakthrough application performance with the DC P4800X. It is designed to 2 deliver 5-8x faster performance at low queue depth workloads, exhibiting extremely high throughput for single accesses and super low latency. Where NAND-based SSDs are often measured at a queue depth of 32 (SATA) or 128 (NVMe*) in order to showcase maximum throughput, the DC P4800X can reach as much as 500,000 IOPS, or ~2GB/s, at a queue depth of 11. 1 This new technology is perfectly suited to accelerate enterprise applications to new, breakthrough levels of performance. Low Latency: Responsive Under Load With a new data storage tier created by Intel Optane technology, data centers can consistently realize amazing response times under any workload. With NAND-based SSDs, random write operations require an immense amount of background media management. These tasks can add significant delay to the read operations. The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X maintains consistent read response times regardless of the write throughput applied to the drive. Read response times remain below <30s while withstanding up to 3 2GB/s of random write pressure. Predictably Fast Service: QoS In an environment of fast growing data and ever demanding needs, data centers must deploy solutions that enable predictably fast service. The DC P4800X is ideal for critical applications with demanding latency requirements. Its 99% read response time is 60x that of a high-endurance NAND SSD under random write workload.4 Optimized to minimize delays in data access times, the DC P4800X results in faster time to insight for decision making. Product Brief Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X Series The extended memory use case allows an Intel Optane SSD Ultra-High Endurance to participate in a shared memory pool with DRAM at either Endurance affects the life expectancy and costs of enterprise the OS or application level enabling bigger memory or more SSDs. The DC P4800X is designed for high write environments, affordable memory. Bigger memory dramatically increases and can withstand intense write traffic that is typically demanded the size of working sets to enable new insights from data in of memory. With its extremely high endurance, the life of the growing segments such as scientific computing, healthcare DC P4800X is extended, making it suitable for write-intensive and autonomous driving. More affordable memory means data applications such as online transaction processing, high centers can use Intel Optane SSDs to displace some DRAM. performance computing, write caching and logging. About Intel Optane Technology Use Cases for Todays Data Center Intel Optane technology is a unique combination of 3D XPoint Data centers can explore two key use cases for the DC P4800X: fast memory media with Intels advanced system memory controller, storage or cache, or extended memory. interface hardware and software IP. This revolutionary technology is offered in several form factors to unleash vast system Fast storage or cache refers to the tiering and layering which enable performance in a range of products. a better memory-to-storage hierarchy. The DC P4800X provides a new storage tier that breaks through the bottlenecks of traditional In the Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X, the revolutionary Intel NAND storage to accelerate applications, and enable more work to Optane technology delivers the unparalleled combination of get done per server. high throughput, low latency, high QoS and ultra-high endurance. FEATURE SPECIFICATION Capacity 375GB, 750GB Form Factor Add-in-Card (AIC), Half-height, Half-length, Low-profile U.2 2.5in Interface PCIe* 3.0 x4, NVMe* Latency (typical) R/W <10s Quality of Service (QoS): 99.999% 4KB 5 Random, Queue Depth 1, Read/Write: <60/100 s 4KB Random, Queue Depth 16, R/W: <150/200 s 6 Throughput 4KB Random, Queue Depth 16, Read/Write: up to 550/500k IOPS 4KB Random, Queue Depth 16, Mixed 70/30 Read/Write: up to 500k IOPS Endurance 30 Drive Writes per day (JESD219 workload) 375GB - 20.5 Petabytes Written (PBW) 750GB - 41 PBW For more information, visit intel.com/ssd 1. Responsiveness defined as average read latency measured at queue depth 1 during 4k random write workload. Measured using FIO 2.15. Common configuration - Intel 2U Server System, OS CentOS 7.2, kernel 3.10.0-327.el7.x86 64, CPU 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4 2.20GHz (22 cores), RAM 396 GB DDR 2133MHz. Intel drives evaluated - Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X 375GB and Intel SSD DC P3700 1600 GB. Samsung drives evaluated Samsung SSD PM1725a, Samsung SSD PM1725, Samsung PM963, Samsung PM953. Micron drive evaluated Micron 9100 PCIe NVMe SSD. Toshiba drives evaluated Toshiba ZD6300. Test QD1 Random Read 4K latency, QD1 Random RW 4K 70% Read latency, QD1 Random Write 4K latency using FIO 2.15. 2. Common Configuration - Intel 2U Server System, OS CentOS 7.2, kernel 3.10.0-327.el7.x86 64, CPU 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4 2.20GHz (22 cores), RAM 396GB DDR 2133MHz. Configuration Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X 375GB and Intel SSD DC P3700 1600 GB. Performance measured under 4K 70-30 workload at QD1-16 using FIO 2.15. 3. Common Configuration - Intel 2U Server System, OS CentOS 7.2, kernel 3.10.0-327.el7.x86 64, CPU 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4 2.20GHz (22 cores), RAM 396GB DDR 2133MHz. Configuration Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X 375GB and Intel SSD DC P3700 1600 GB. Latency Average read latency measured at QD1 during 4K Random Write operations using FIO 2.15. 4. Common Configuration - Intel 2U Server System, OS CentOS 7.2, kernel 3.10.0-327.el7.x86 64, CPU 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4 2.20GHz (22 cores), RAM 396GB DDR 2133MHz. Configuration Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X 375GB and Intel SSD DC P3700 1600 GB. QoS measures 99% QoS under 4K 70-30 workload at QD1 using FIO 2.15. 5. 4 KB = 4,096 bytes 6. Performance measured using FIO* rev 2.13, with 4 workers with total Queue Depth of 16. Intel technologies features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No computer system can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com. Benchmark results were obtained prior to implementation of recent software patches and firmware updates intended to address exploits referred to as Spectre and Meltdown. 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