Product brief
Intel® 3D NAND SSD DC P4501 Series
Data Center (DC), PCIe* (P)
Cloud Inspired. Optimized
for Low Power Storage.
Designed for power conscious and space constrained cloud storage solutions.
The cloud continues to drive innovation, new services, and agility for businesses,
which need to deploy services faster, scale eectively, and reduce the human costs of
managing assets. Software-dened and converged infrastructures are central to cloud
solutions that help businesses meet these goals. In addition, today’s data centers face
space and power constraints.
To meet these challenges, Intel oers space and power optimized SSD options in a
variety of form factors to give solution designers choices to reduce Opex, increase
agility, and reduce Capex.
Power-Ecient, High-Performance SSDs for Cloud Storage
The Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center P4501 Series—a member of the 2nd Gen Intel®
3D NAND SSD family—combines a new Intel-developed controller, unique rmware
innovations, and industry-leading 3D NAND density in ecient, low power, small
form factor designs. These drives are optimized for the storage needs of cloud and
software-dened infrastructures and enable data centers to do more per server. To
minimize service disruptions and help eciently manage at scale, the Intel SSD DC
P4501 Series integrates industry-leading reliability, durable performance, and advanced
manageability features.
The DC P4501 Series is optimized for the read intensive workloads of cloud storage
solutions and is architected to maximize CPU utilization. With controller support for
up to 128 queues, these SSDs minimize the risk of idle CPU cores and perform most
eectively on Intel® Xeon® processor-based platforms.
Solutions Optimized for Space and Power Ecient Capacity
Available in U.2 (2.5 in x 7mm) and M.2 (110mm) form factors, the DC P4501 Series
enables data centers to optimize for space and power ecient capacity. The drives pack
up to 4 TB in 7mm U.2 form factors, so data centers can deliver up to 4x more storage
in the same space compared to current generation PCIe*-based SSDs.1 Optimized for
power eciency, the drives can free up to 45% of a rack’s power budget at equivalent
capacity to standard power drives.2 This savings enables data centers to increase rack
compute capability to address the needs of emerging workloads or increase storage
density.
Manageability to Maximize IT Eciency
DC P4501 drives are built to maximize IT eciency within existing server footprints.
New rmware manageability features—including improved rmware updates, health
monitoring, and secure erase—help reduce server downtime through improved update
processes and expanded monitoring capabilities. In addition, the DC P4501 is platformcompatible with Intel® Volume Management Device (VMD) which delivers seamless
management of PCIe-based NVMe* SSDs and enables enhanced serviceability and hotplug to minimize service interruptions during drive swaps.
Product Brief | Intel® SSD DC P4501 Series
SMART management and Intel custom log pages provide
advanced drive telemetry to manage thermals, monitor
endurance, and track drive health status. Management coverage
is now expanded across a wider range of drive states with
support for the NVM Express* Management Interface (NVMeMI) specication, an industry standard way to manage the SSD
Power Loss Imminent (PLI) provides protection from unplanned
power loss, and is obtained through a propriety combination of
power management chips, capacitors, rmware algorithms, and
a built-in PLI self-test. Intel’s PLI feature provides data centers
with high condence of preventing data loss during unplanned
power interrupts.
out-of-band.
Future Proof Your Data Center with Low Power
Industry-Leading Reliability and Security
As capacity per server continues to scale, the risk of data
corruption and errors increases. With an eye toward this risk,
Intel has built industry-leading end-to-end data protection4
into the DC P4501. This includes protection from silent data
corruption, which can cause catastrophic downtime and errors
in major businesses.
FEATURES AT A GLANCE
Capacity 500 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB
Performance
Manageability Support for NVM Express Management Interface (NVMe-MI), NVMe SMART/Health and Log Pages
Reliability
Interface PCIe 3.1 x4, NVMe 1.2
3
4
64k Sequential Read/ Write: up to 3200/900 MB/s
4k Random Read/Write: up to 360,0 00/46,00 0 IOPS
End-to-end data protection, including silent data corruption; uncorrec table bit error rate < 1 sector per 1017 bits read
Power Loss Imminent (PLI) protects data during power loss
Storage Solutions
Built with the same cloud inspired design as the Intel® SSD
DC P4500 Series, the low power Intel® SSD DC P4501 Series
enables energy and space ecient storage solutions to help
data centers do more per server, minimize ser vice disruptions
and eciently manage at scale.
Learn more now at www.intel.com/ssd
Form Factors U.2 2.5in x 7mm (for serviceability, hot-plug, and density)
Media
Endurance
Tunable Maximum Power
Idle Power U.2 <5 watts
Warranty 5-year warranty
Cost red uction scena rios described are intended as examp les of how a given Intel- based pr oduc t, in the speci ed circumsta nces and conguratio ns, may a ect fu ture cos ts and provide cos t savings .
Circumsta nces will vary. Intel does no t guara ntee any costs or cos t reduc tion.
Intel technolo gies’ features and ben ets depend on s ystem conguratio n and may require ena bled hardware, sof tware or ser vice activa tion. Perfo rmance varie s dep endin g on system congurati on. No
computer system can be ab solute ly sec ure. Check with your system manu facturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com .
Intel di sclai ms all exp ress and implie d warranties, including wi thout li mitat ion, th e implie d war ranties of merchant abili ty, tne ss for a particu lar pur pose, and non- infringem ent, a s well as any wa rranty
arisi ng from course of pe rformance, cours e of dealin g, or usage in trade.
1. Space/capaci ty comparison: 2 TB U. 2 15mm I ntel® SSD DC P3520 at up to 4 8 TB compared to 4 TB U.2 7mm In tel® SSD DC P4501, cap able of up to 192 TB.
2. Power e cient capacity. Sou rces – Inte l and Facebo ok. Facebook Li ghtening JBOF: https ://code.face book .com/posts /9896388044580 07/in trodu cing- lightning-a- exible-nv me-jbof/. Inte l – Specicati ons for Intel® SSD DC P450 0 and Intel® SSD DC P4501. Each rac k populates 24U with 15x 4 TB dri ves in each r ack unit . Storage on the DC P450 0 48U rack consumes 9kW (24U x 15 SSDs/U x 25 W/
drive) while the DC P4501 rac k consumes 3.6 kW (24U x 15 SSDs/U x 10 W/drive).
3. Test and Sy stem Congu ration: In tel® Server Board S 2600WT TR, Intel® Xeon® E5 -2699 v3, Spee d: 2.30GH z, Intel BIOS: Inter nal Releas e, DRAM: D DR3 – 32GB, OS : Linux* Cento s* 7.0 ker nel 4.8, Intel®
SSD DC P450 0 Serie s, 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB. Testing pe rformed by Intel.
4. Sour ce - Intel. End-to -end data protect ion ref ers to the se t of methods used to detect an d correc t the in tegri ty of data across the full pat h as it is read or wr itten betw een the host and the SS D controlle r and media. Test perf ormed on Inte l® SSD DC S3520, Inte l® SSD DC P3520, Inte l® SSD DC P3510, Intel® SS D DC P450 0, Samsung * PM953, Samsung PM1725, Sa msung PM961, Sam sung PM863,
Micro n* 7100, Micron 510DC , Micron 9100, HGST* SN100, Sea gate* 1200.2, SanDis k* CS ECO dri ves. Claim is bas ed on average of Inte l drive er ror rates vs. aver age of competit or drive error ra tes.
Neutr on radi ation is used to dete rmine silent dat a corruption rates and as a measure of over all end-to- end data protection eec tiven ess. Among the causes of data corru ption in an SSD controller are
ionizing radiation , sig nal nois e and cr osst alk, an d SRAM instabilit y. Sile nt errors were me asured at run-time an d at post-reboo t after a dr ive “hang” by comp aring expec ted data vs actual data returne d
by drive . The an nual ra te of data cor rupti on was projec ted from the rate du ring acce lerated testing divided by the acceleration of the beam (see JEDEC sta ndard JESD89A).
Intel , the Intel logo, and Xeon are tr ademarks of In tel Corp oration in the U. S. and/or other countrie s. *Other name s and br ands may be claim ed as the proper ty of othe rs.
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M.2 110mm (for ultra-high density)
Intel 3D NAND, TLC
Random/JEDEC up to 1 DWPD or 5PBW, sequential up to 3 DWPD or 20PBW
U.2: 8, 10, 12.5 W
M.2: 6 to 8.25 W
M.2 <3 watts