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-dened
and converged infrastructures.
Pairing a new Intel developed controller, unique rmware innovations, and
industry-leading 3D NAND density, the Intel® 3D NAND SSD Data Center
P4600 Series delivers an all new design to support the data caching needs of
cloud storage and software-dened 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 eectively, and remove
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-dened and
converged infrastructures. This fast adoption is being driven by the need to increase
eciency, refresh existing hardware, deploy new workloads, and reduce operational
expenditures. The DC P4600 signicantly increases ser ver 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 eectively 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.
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Manageability to Maximize IT Eciency
The DC P4600 is built for software-dened cloud infrastructures across the multi-cloud environment to enable
greater eciency within existing server footprints.
New rmware manageability features help reduce server
downtime through improved update processes and expanded
monitoring capabilities.
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 NVMe-Management Interface (NVMe-MI)
specication, an industry standard way to manage the SSD
out-of-band.
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 protection
into the DC P4600.
corruption which can cause catastrophic downtime and errors
in major businesses.
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.
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This includes protection from silent data
Designed for Today’s Modern Data Centers
The DC P4600 is Intel’s new 3D NAND SSD for mixed workloads
that are common to the data caching needs of cloud-driven
data centers. The mix of performance, capacity, endurance,
manageability, and reliability make it the ideal solution for data
caching in software-dened and converged infrastructures.
Learn more now at www.intel.com/ssd
Features At-a-Glance
Capacity 1.6, 2, 3.2TB in U.2 form factor
2, 4 TB in AIC form f actor
2, 3
Performance
Manageability Support for NVM Express* Management Interface (NV Me-MI),
Reliability End-to-end dat a protection from silent data corruption,
Interface
Form Factors U.2 2. 5in x 15mm
Media Intel 3D NAND, TLC
Endurance Random/JEDEC up to 2.9 DWPD (5 Years) / 21.7 PBW,
Power Max sequential read/write 9.9W / 20.7W
Warranty 5 year warranty
64k Sequential Read/Write – up to 3280/2100 MB/s
4k Random Read/Write – up to 702, 500 / 257,000 IOPS
NVMe SMART / Health and Log Pa ges
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uncorrectable bit error rate < 1 sector per 10
PCIe 3.1 x4, NVMe 1.2
(for serviceability, hot-plug, and densit y)
Add-in- Card: Half- Height Half-Length, low-prole
(for legacy and mainstream ser ver compatibility)
sequential workload up to 4 DWPD (5 Years) / 29. 2 PBW
bits read
1. Source - Intel. En d-to -end data protection ref ers to the set of metho ds used to detect and corre ct the integri ty of dat a acros s the full path as it is read or writ ten bet ween the host and the SSD 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 P4500, Sams ung* PM953, Sa msung PM1725, Samsung PM9 61, Samsung PM863,
Micro n* 7100, Micron 510DC , Micron 9100, HGST* SN10 0, Seagate* 1200 .2, Sa nDisk* CS ECO drives. Claim is bas ed on average of Inte l drive error ra tes vs. averag e of compet itor drive error rates.
Neutr on radiation is used to det ermine silent data corrupti on rate s and as a mea sure of overall en d-to -end data pro tect ion eecti veness. Among the causes of dat a corru ption in an SSD contr oller
are ioni zing ra diati on, signal noise and crossta lk, and SRAM instabilit y. Silen t error s were measured at run- time and at post-reboot afte r a drive “hang” by com pari ng expe cted data vs actual dat a
retur ned by drive. The an nual rate of data corruption wa s proje cted from the rate during accele rated testing divided by the accelera tion of the beam (see JEDEC standard JESD 89A).
2. Test and Sy stem Congu ration: Pro cessor: In tel® Xeon® E5-26 99 v3, Speed : 2.30GHz , Intel BIOS: I nternal Rel ease, DR AM: DDR3 – 32GB , OS: Linux* Centos * 7.0 kerne l 4.6, Intel® S SD DC P4500 Ser ies
3. Performance meas ured with QD=1, and QD=256 (QD =64 , worker s=4). Measur emen ts per form ed on the full Lo gica l Block Address (LBA) span of the drive.
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