Product brief Intel 3D NAND SSD DC P4600 Series Data Center (DC), PCI Express* (P) Cloud Inspired. Caching Optimized. Designed for modern cloud storage solutions such as software-denfi ed and converged infrastructures. Pairing a new Intel developed controller, unique firmware innovations, and industry-leading 3D NAND density, the Intel SSD Data Center P4600 Seriesa member of the 2nd Gen Intel 3D NAND SSD familydelivers an all new design to support the data caching needs of cloud storage and software- defined infrastructures. The Intel SSD DC P4600 Series is stacked with a combination of performance, capacity, manageability, and reliability to help data centers fast-track their business and meet the overall demands of their digital business. An SSD Optimized for Cloud Storage Architectures The cloud continues to drive innovation, new services, and agility for businesses which are seeing the need to deploy services faster, scale effectively, and reduce the human costs of managing assets. Multi-cloud has become a core element for any enterprise strategy, with top cloud providers openly embracing PCIe*/NVMe*-based SSDs because of the scalable performance, low latency, and continued innovation. Within the shift to the cloud is an increased adoption of software-defined and converged infrastructures. This fast adoption is being driven by the need to increase efficiency, refresh existing hardware, deploy new workloads, and reduce operational expenditures. The DC P4600 significantly increases server agility and utilization, while also accelerating applications, across a wide range of cloud workloads. Optimized for Caching Across a Range of Workloads This cloud-inspired SSD is built with an entirely new NVMe controller that is optimized for mixed workloads commonly found in data caching and is architected to maximize CPU utilization. With controller support for up to 128 queues, the DC P4600 helps minimize the risk of idle CPU cores and performs most effectively on Intel platforms with Intel Xeon processors. The queue pair-to-CPU core mapping supports high drive count and also supports multiple SSDs scaling on Intel platforms. With the DC P4600, data centers can accelerate caching to enable more users, add more services, and perform more workloads per server. Now you can cache faster and respond faster.Product Brief Intel 3D NAND SSD DC P4600 Series Manageability to Maximize IT Ecffi iency Designed for Todays Modern Data Centers The DC P4600 is built for software-defined cloud infra- The DC P4600 is Intels new 3D NAND SSD for mixed workloads structures across the multi-cloud environment to enable that are common to the data caching needs of cloud-driven greater efficiency within existing server footprints. data centers. The mix of performance, capacity, endurance, manageability, and reliability make it the ideal solution for data New firmware manageability features help reduce server caching in software-defined and converged infrastructures. downtime through improved update processes and expanded Learn more now at www.intel.com/ssd monitoring capabilities. SMART management and Intel custom log pages provide Features At-a-Glance advanced drive telemetry to manage thermals, monitor Capacity 1.6, 2, 3.2 TB in U.2 form factor endurance, and track drive health status. Management coverage is now expanded across a wider range of drive states with 2, 4 TB in AIC form factor support for the NVMe-Management Interface (NVMe-MI) 2, 3 Performance 64k Sequential Read/Write up to 3280/2100 MB/s specification, an industry standard way to manage the SSD 4k Random Read/Write up to 702,500/257,000 IOPS out-of-band. Manageability Support for NVM Express* Management Interface (NVMe-MI), NVMe SMART / Health and Log Pages Industry-leading Reliability and Security Reliability End-to-end data protection from silent data corruption, 17 uncorrectable bit error rate < 1 sector per 10 bits read As capacity per server continues to scale, the risk of data corruption and errors increases. With an eye toward this risk, Interface PCIe 3.1 x4, NVMe 1.2 Intel has built industry-leading end-to-end data protection Form Factors U.2 2.5in x 15mm 1 into the DC P4600. This includes protection from silent data (for serviceability, hot-plug, and density) corruption which can cause catastrophic downtime and errors Add-in-Card: Half-Height Half-Length, low-profile in major businesses. (for legacy and mainstream server compatibility) Media Intel 3D NAND, TLC Power Loss Imminent (PLI) provides protection from unplanned Endurance Random/JEDEC up to 2.9 DWPD (5 Years) / 21.7 PBW, power loss, and is obtained through a propriety combination of sequential workload up to 4 DWPD (5 Years) / 29.2 PBW power management chips, capacitors, firmware algorithms, and Power Max sequential read/write 9.9W / 20.7W a built-in PLI self-test. Intels PLI feature provides data centers with high confidence of preventing data loss during unplanned Warranty 5 year warranty power interrupts. 1. Source - Intel. End-to-end data protection refers to the set of methods used to detect and correct the integrity of data across the full path as it is read or written between the host and the SSD co-n troller and media. Test performed on Intel SSD DC S3520, Intel SSD DC P3520, Intel SSD DC P3510, Intel SSD DC P4500, Samsung* PM953, Samsung PM1725, Samsung PM961, Samsung PM863, Micron* 7100, Micron 510DC, Micron 9100, HGST* SN100, Seagate* 1200.2, SanDisk* CS ECO drives. Claim is based on average of Intel drive error rates vs. average of competitor drive error rates. Neutron radiation is used to determine silent data corruption rates and as a measure of overall end-to-end data protection effectiveness. Among the causes of data corruption in an SSD controller are ionizing radiation, signal noise and crosstalk, and SRAM instability. Silent errors were measured at run-time and at post-reboot after a drive hang by comparing expected data vs actual data returned by drive. The annual rate of data corruption was projected from the rate during accelerated testing divided by the acceleration of the beam (see JEDEC standard JESD89A). 2. Test and System Configuration: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3, Speed: 2.30GHz, Intel BIOS: Internal Release, DRAM: DDR3 32GB, OS: Linux* Centos* 7.0 kernel 4.6, Intel SSD DC P4500 Series 3. Performance measured with QD=1, and QD=256 (QD=64, workers=4). Measurements performed on the full Logical Block Address (LBA) span of the drive. 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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