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 ser vice providers thrive on this data to make critical decisions,
gain new insights from the data, and dierentiate services. But, today’s 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 sucient 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 rst 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 aordable 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.
It is designed to deliver up to 6x faster performance at low queue depth workloads,1
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
as many as 550,000 IOPS at a queue depth of 16.2 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 signicant 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 <30µs while
maintaining a 70/30 mixed read/write bandwidth of 2GB/s.
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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
write workload.3 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 P480 0X/P4801X
High Endurance
Endurance aects the life expectancy and costs of enterprise SSDs.
The DC P4800X/P4801X is designed for high write environments,
and can withstand intense write trac that is typically demanded
of memory. With its extremely high endurance, the life of the
DC P4800X/P4801X is extended, making it suitable for writeintensive applications such as online transaction processing, high
performance computing, write caching, boot, and logging.
Caching and fast storage refer to the tiering and layering that
support a better memory-to-storage hierarchy. The Intel®
Optane™ SSD facilitates dynamic placement of data that enables
fast access to both read and/or write data. In addition, this high
performing SSD meets the requirement of an application to
accelerate storage access.
An Intel Optane SSD can also extend memory, oering bigger or
more aordable memory by participating in a shared memory
pool with DRAM at either the OS or application level. Bigger
Use Cases for Today’s Data Center
The Intel® Optane™ DC P4800X provides a new storage tier that
breaks through the bottlenecks of traditional NAND storage to
accelerate applications and enable more work to get done per
server. This unique capability means data centers can explore
memory dramatically increases the size of ‘working sets’ to enable
new insights from data in growing segments such as scientic
computing, healthcare and autonomous driving. More aordable
memory means data centers can use Intel® Optane™ SSDs to
displace some DRAM.
three key use cases, including caching, fast storage, and extended
memory. The DC P4801X can also provide fast logging, caching,
boot, or extended memory.
FE ATUR E SPECIFICATION
Capacity per Form Fac tor Half-height, Half-leng th (HHHL) Add-in-Card (A IC): 375GB, 750 GB, 1.5TB
Form Factor Add-in-Card (AIC), Half-height, Half-length, Low-prole; U.2 2.5in, 15mm; M.2 110mm
Interface PCIe* 3.0 x4, NVMe*
Latency (typical) R/W
Quality of Service (QoS): 99.999%
Throughput
Endurance
(JESD219 worklo ad )
Drive Wr ites per Day=D WPD; Petaby tes Written =PBW
Power Enhanced power-loss data protection
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2.5” x15mm, Small Form Factor U.2: 375GB, 750 GB, 1.5TB
P4801X: U. 2: 100GB M. 2: 100GB, 20 0GB, 375GB
<10/12µs
4KB Random, Queue Depth 1, Read/Write: <60/100 µs ; 4KB Random, Queue Depth 16, R/W: <150/200 µs
4KB Random, Queue Depth 16, Read/Write: up to 550/550k IOPS
4KB Random, Queue Depth 16, Mixed 70/30 Read/Write: up to 50 0k IOPS
30 DWPD: 375GB - 20.5 PBW; 750GB - 41 PBW
60 DWPD: 100GB - 10.9 PBW; 200GB - 21.9 PBW; 375GB - 41.0 PBW; 750GB - 82.0 PBW; 1.5TB - 164 PBW
P4800X: Active/Idle: Up to 18 W / 7 W
P4801X: Ac tive/Idle: Up to 11 W / 3 W
For more up-to-date product specications, visit ark.intel.com
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1. Source – Inte l-tes ted: 4K 70/30 RW Perf orma nce at Low Que ue Depth. Meas ured using FIO 3.1. Common Conguratio n - Intel 2U Ser ver System, OS: CentOS 7.5, Kernel 4.17.6-1.el7.x86_64, CP U
2 x Intel® Xe on® 6154 Gold @ 3.0G Hz (18 cores), RA M 256GB DDR4 @ 2666MHz . Congurat ion – Intel® Opt ane™ SSD DC P480 0X 375GB compar ed to *Intel® SS D DC P4600 1.6T B. Intel Mic rocode:
0x20 00043; Sys tem BIO S: 00. 01.0013; ME Fi rmwa re: 04.00.04.294; BMC Firmware: 1.43.91f76955; FRUS DR: 1.43 . The benchmar k result s may need to be revised as addi tiona l testing is condu cted .
Perf orma nce results are ba sed on testing as of November 15, 2018 and may not reect all pu blicly availa ble securit y update s. See congur ation disclos ure for de tail s. No product c an be abso lutely
secure.
2. In tel drive eva luated - Intel® O ptane™ SSD DC P4800X 375GB. Test a nd System Con guration : CPU: Intel® Xeo n® E5-2687W v4 3. 0GHz 30MB 160 W 12 cores , CPU Sockets : 2, RAM Cap acity: 32GB ,
RAM M odel: DDR4 2133MHz , PCIe Attac h: CPU (not PCH lan e att ach), Chipset : Intel C610 chipse t, BIOS: SE5 C610.86B.01.01.00 24.021320181901, Sw itch/ReTimer M odel/Vendor: Intel A2U 44X25NVMEDK, OS: Cent OS 7.3.1611, Kernel: 4.14.50, FI O versio n: 3.5; NV Me Driver: Inb ox, C-states : Disab led, Hyper Thre ading : Disabled, CPU Governo r (throu gh OS): Per formance Mod e; EIST (Sp eed
Step): Disabl ed, Intel Turbo Mode : Disabled, P-states = Disabled; IR Q Balancing Se rvices (OS) = O ; SMP An ity, set in the OS; QD1 utilizes I/O Polling Mod e. Per formance results are based on te sting
as of Au gust 31, 2018 and may not reect the publicl y available securit y updates. S ee congur ation disc losure for d etails.
3. So urce – Intel -tested: Response Ti me refers to avera ge read late ncy measure d at queue dep th 1 during 4K ra ndom wr ite work load using FIO 3.1. See conguration in Footnot e 1 above.
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