Product brief Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X/P4801X Data Center (DC), PCI Express* (P) Breakthrough Performance Expands Datasets, Eliminates Bottlenecks Solve the most demanding storage and memory challenges with the Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X/P4801X 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 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 high endurance, this innovative solution is optimized to break through data access bottlenecks by providing a new data storage tier. The DC P4800X/ P4801X accelerates applications with fast caching and fast storage to increase scale per server and reduce transaction costs for latency sensitive workloads. In addition, the Intel Optane 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 Intel Optane DC P4800X/P4801X. 1 It is designed to deliver up to 6x 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 Intel Optane DC P4800X/P4801X can reach 2 as many as 550,000 IOPS at a queue depth of 16. 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/P4801X maintains consistent read response times regardless of the write throughput applied to the drive. Average read response times remain below <30s while 2 maintaining a 70/30 mixed read/write bandwidth of 2GB/s. 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 Intel Optane DC P4800X/ P4801X is ideal for critical applications with demanding latency requirements. Its 99% read response time is up to 63x better than that of a high-endurance NAND SSD under random 3 write workload. Optimized to minimize delays in data access times, the Intel Optane DC P4800X /P4801X results in faster time to insight for decision making.Product Brief Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X/P4801X Caching and fast storage refer to the tiering and layering that High Endurance support a better memory-to-storage hierarchy. The Intel Endurance affects the life expectancy and costs of enterprise SSDs. Optane SSD facilitates dynamic placement of data that enables The DC P4800X/P4801X is designed for high write environments, fast access to both read and/or write data. In addition, this high and can withstand intense write traffic that is typically demanded performing SSD meets the requirement of an application to of memory. With its extremely high endurance, the life of the accelerate storage access. DC P4800X/P4801X is extended, making it suitable for write- An Intel Optane SSD can also extend memory, offering bigger or intensive applications such as online transaction processing, high more affordable memory by participating in a shared memory performance computing, write caching, boot, and logging. pool with DRAM at either the OS or application level. Bigger memory dramatically increases the size of working sets to enable Use Cases for Todays Data Center new insights from data in growing segments such as scientific The Intel Optane DC P4800X provides a new storage tier that computing, healthcare and autonomous driving. More affordable breaks through the bottlenecks of traditional NAND storage to memory means data centers can use Intel Optane SSDs to accelerate applications and enable more work to get done per displace some DRAM. server. This unique capability means data centers can explore three key use cases, including caching, fast storage, and extended memory. The DC P4801X can also provide fast logging, caching, boot, or extended memory. FEATURE SPECIFICATION Capacity per Form Factor Half-height, Half-length (HHHL) Add-in-Card (AIC): 375GB, 750GB, 1.5TB 2.5 x15mm, Small Form Factor U.2: 375GB, 750GB, 1.5TB P4801X: U.2: 100GB M.2: 100GB, 200GB, 375GB Form Factor Add-in-Card (AIC), Half-height, Half-length, Low-profile U.2 2.5in, 15mm M.2 110mm Interface PCIe* 3.0 x4, NVMe* 2 Latency (typical) R/W <10/12s 2 Quality of Service (QoS): 99.999% 4KB Random, Queue Depth 1, Read/Write: <60/100 s 4KB Random, Queue Depth 16, R/W: <150/200 s 2 Throughput 4KB Random, Queue Depth 16, Read/Write: up to 550/550k IOPS 4KB Random, Queue Depth 16, Mixed 70/30 Read/Write: up to 500k IOPS Endurance 30 DWPD: 375GB - 20.5 PBW 750GB - 41 PBW (JESD219 workload) 60 DWPD: 100GB - 10.9 PBW 200GB - 21.9 PBW 375GB - 41.0 PBW 750GB - 82.0 PBW 1.5TB - 164 PBW Drive Writes per Day=DWPD Petabytes Written=PBW Power Enhanced power-loss data protection P4800X: Active/Idle: Up to 18 W / 7 W P4801X: Active/Idle: Up to 11 W / 3 W For more up-to-date product specifications, visit ark.intel.com For more information, visit intel.com/ssd 1. Source Intel-tested: 4K 70/30 RW Performance at Low Queue Depth. Measured using FIO 3.1. Common Configuration - Intel 2U Server System, OS: CentOS 7.5, Kernel 4.17.6-1.el7.x86 64, CPU 2 x Intel Xeon 6154 Gold 3.0GHz (18 cores), RAM 256GB DDR4 2666MHz. Configuration Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X 375GB compared to *Intel SSD DC P4600 1.6TB. Intel Microcode: 0x2000043 System BIOS: 00.01.0013 ME Firmware: 04.00.04.294 BMC Firmware: 1.43.91f76955 FRUSDR: 1.43. The benchmark results may need to be revised as additional testing is conducted. Performance results are based on testing as of November 15, 2018 and may not reefl ct all publicly available security updates. See configuration disclosure for details. No product can be absolutely secure. 2. Intel drive evaluated - Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X 375GB. Test and System Configuration: CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 3.0GHz 30MB 160W 12 cores, CPU Sockets: 2, RAM Capacity: 32GB, RAM Model: DDR4 2133MHz, PCIe Attach: CPU (not PCH lane attach), Chipset: Intel C610 chipset, BIOS: SE5C610.86B.01.01.0024.021320181901, Switch/ReTimer Model/Vendor: Intel A2U44X25N- VMEDK, OS: CentOS 7.3.1611, Kernel: 4.14.50, FIO version: 3.5 NVMe Driver: Inbox, C-states: Disabled, Hyper Threading: Disabled, CPU Governor (through OS): Performance Mode EIST (Speed Step): Disabled, Intel Turbo Mode: Disabled, P-states = Disabled IRQ Balancing Services (OS) = Off SMP Affinity, set in the OS QD1 utilizes I/O Polling Mode. Performance results are based on testing as of August 31, 2018 and may not reefl ct the publicly available security updates. See configuration disclosure for details. 3. Source Intel-tested: Response Time refers to average read latency measured at queue depth 1 during 4K random write workload using FIO 3.1. See configuration in Footnote 1 above. 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