product brief
Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center P3520 Series
Data Center (DC), PCIe* (P), 3D NAND
Bringing PCIe* Performance
to the Mainstream
High Density Intel® 3D NAND SSD for Best Value
Built with the data integrity, drive reliability, and performance consistency
you expect from Intel.
Introduction
As a result of the growing demand for
cloud services, it’s no longer only large
scale providers that oer cloud services.
Regional cloud service providers,
independent software vendors,
original equipment manufacturers,
telecommunications companies, systems
integrators and others are seeking to
compete in the cloud service segment.
In today’s competitive business
environment, current as well as
newcomers to cloud computing must
deliver diversied services to ensure that
data centers have the agility to respond
to dynamic business needs, the ability to
scale on demand, and are cost ecient.
The Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center
P3520 Series utilizes Intel® 3D NAND SSD
to meet the challenges of top data center
customers by enabling the introduction
of new/additional services while reducing
costs and improving quality of service.
Intel® 3D NAND SSDs
The SSD Data Center P3520 Series is
part of the Intel® 3D NAND SSD family
of products. Built on breakthrough 3D
NAND and delivered by a proven and
trusted supplier, Intel® 3D NAND SSDs
transform the economics of storage.
Next Generation SSD Performance
As Intel’s newest solid state storage
solution, the Intel® SSD DC P3520 Series
oers the speed of PCIe* performance,
making it the ideal choice for read-
intensive workloads.
The data explosion is redening the
storage landscape. The DC P3520 Series
allows you to transition your storage
solutions from SATA SSDs and HDDs to
the next-generation performance of PCIe
in a cost-eective manner.
Transitioning your storage platform to
the DC P3520 Series delivers the best of
both worlds; cost-ecient performance
for your customers today, with the ability
to prepare for a competitive edge in the
future.
High Performance, Low Cost
The Intel® SSD Data Center Family
for PCIe oers consistently amazing
performance that provides fast data
streams directly to the processor, such
as the high-performance Intel® Xeon®
processor, for ecient server data
transfers.
The DC P3520 Series, utilizing the low
latency and high bandwidth of the
NVMe* specication, enables up to
4.7x the performance of SATA.¹ When
compared to 10K HDDs, the DC P3520
Series enables up to 359x faster random
read, up to 67x faster random write, up
to 10.3x faster sequential read, and up
to 5x faster sequential write.² NVMe
Non-Volatile Memory Solutions
Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center P3520 Series
enables expanded compute power, and
performance; paving the way for the data
center of the future.
The Intel® DC P3520 Series’ cost
structure delivers a breakthrough cost
performance prole with our best IOPS
value per dollar, optimized for read-
intensive workloads.
Available in capacities of 450GB, 1.2TB
and 2TB – the DC P3520 Series is
optimized for high density data center/
enterprise congurations, meeting
the data storage needs of today and
tomorrow.
For New Designs or Upgrading
Existing Systems
Intel’s compatibility validation team and
robust PCIe compliance programs enable
the DC P3520 Series’ broad compatibility.
In mainstream operating systems the
DC P3520 Series works straight out of
the box; it can be quickly integrated into
new designs and existing systems can be
easily upgraded.
• PCIe uses industry standard software
and drivers
• Available in the U.2 2.5-inch form
factor with densities ranging from
450GB to 2TB
• Industry standard PCIe 3.0 x4 halfheight half-length (HHHL) low-prole
Add-in-Card (AIC) in 1.2TB and 2TB
capacities
Drives with Integrity
Like all Intel SSD Data Center family of
products, these solutions are designed,
delivered and supported with Intel’s
unique advantage:
• A proven track record of innovation
leadership
• Complete product lifecycle support
driving solution-ready ecosystems
and platform-expert post-sales
support
• Uncompromised supply chain
quality enabling world class delivery
performance and product quality
• Lasting integrity providing robust
protection from data loss and
corruption
• Reliably eective performance; drives
perform as expected day one through
decommission
• Increased platform condence
through complete in-house design
Product Spotlight
• Intel’s best value on high-density
Intel 3D NAND
• Up to 4.7x performance over
SATA¹
• Up to 90% IOPs consistency
• Up to 100x more eective at
preventing SDC³
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS⁴
CA PACI TY RANDOM 4K READ RANDOM 4K WRITE
2TB 375,000 IOPS 26,000 IOPS 85,000 IOPS 1,700 MB/s 1,350 MB/s
1.2TB 320,000 IOPS 26,000 IOPS 80,000 IOPS 1,700 MB/s 1,300 MB/s
450GB 145,000 IOPS 19,00 0 IOPS 50,0 00 IOPS 1,200 MB/s 600 MB/s
RANDOM 4K 70/30
READ/WRITE
SEQUENTIAL READ SEQUENTIAL WRITE
For more information on Intel® SSD DC P3520 Series, visit www.intel.com/SSD
1 4.7X Per formance. Re sults have been es timated or simul ated using inte rnal Intel analy sis or architec ture simulat ion or modeling , and prov ided to you for infor mational purp oses. Comparing 2TB Int el® SSD DC
P3520 with 1. 6TB Intel® SSD D C S3520. Any die rences in your s ystem hardw are, soft ware or con guration may a ect your ac tual perf ormance.
2 HDD vs . P3520 Comparis on. Perfo rmance data ba sed on IOMet er* 2014 Congur ation: Resu lts based on In tel® DC P3520 450GB ve rsus Seag ate* Savvio * 10K SAS ST30 0MM006 H ard Drive. A ny dierence s in your
syste m hardware, s oftware or co nguratio n may aec t your act ual perfor mance.
3 Silent D ata Corrupti on. Source - Inte l. Test perfor med on Intel® SSD S3 x00 drives , Samsung PM853 T and SM8 43T, Micron P4 00e, Seag ate 600 Pro and Sa nDisk Light ening drives . Drives were e xposed to incr easing
amoun ts of radiation . After a drive “hang”, a powe r cycle wa s performe d to deter mine whether th e drive wo uld re-boot . If a drive re -booted it wa s read, an d data was compar ed to the tester’ s maste r copy of the
up-to -date data th at the drive was ex pected to conta in based on write s the driv e had ackno wledged as comp leted prior to the “h ang” event. If th e drive return ed data that die red from the expe cted data, it w as
record ed as failing fo r silent er rors. The ann ual rate of silent er rors was proje cted from the ra te during acceler ated testing di vided by the accele ration of the bea m (see JEDEC s tandard JESD89A) .
4 Test and Sys tem Congur ation: Proce ssor: Intel® Xe on® E5-2699 v3, Sp eed: 2.30 GHz, Chipse t: Intel® DH82 029, Intel Ser ver Board: S26 00WT2, B IOS: Intel® SE 5C610.86B. 01.01.0008 .021120151325, releas e date
02/11/2015, DRA M: DDR3 – 32GB , OS: Window s* Server 2012-R C2, Linux* Ce ntos 7.0 kernel 4. 4, Intel® SSD D C P3520, 180GB , Intel NVMe* D river v1.0. 0.9017.
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