Intel Optane DC P5800X Series 1.6TB, 2.5″ x 15mm, U.2, PCIe 4.0 x4, 3D XPoint Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPF21Q016TB01

Legacy storage technologies can’t close the gap

Historically, DRAM and NAND acted as the performance buffer between compute and capacity storage, but they both leave an ever-widening gap for the modern, scaled- out data center. DRAM is far too expensive to scale, and density will fall further behind relative to the CPU core growth rate. And NAND has sufficient capacity and cost to scale, but the performance that allows it to function as an efficient storage tier will continue to decrease with each subsequent generation. The Intel Optane SSD P5800X Series fills the critical storage performance gap, making these SSDs ideal for fast caching or tiering of hot data.

Introducing the world’s fastest data center SSD

• Even fast NAND SSDs are no longer adequate for data-driven applications that need to access and process data in real time or as a buffer to fast Ethernet (NIC) connections. With an industry-leading combination of low latency, high quality of service (QoS), fast throughput and high endurance, Intel Optane SSD P5800X accelerates access to large and complex data sets needed by enterprises and cloud service providers to run their high-demand workloads. Critically, unlike other SSD technology, Intel Optane SSDs can read and write simultaneously without performance degradation.

Blazing fast performance

The PCIe 4.0-compliant Intel Optane SSD P5800X can reach up to 1.6M IOPS of random read or random write performance at low queue depths. The PCIe bus is designed as a bidirectional bus (reads and writes) so the Intel Optane SSD P5800X is capable of achieving greater-than-spec sheet performance (up to 2.0M IOPS) under 70/30 mixed loads. The P5800X Series also has a unique 512B (sub-4K block) read capability designed specifically for metadata use cases and is capable of reaching up to 5M IOPS even in mixed- workload scenarios.

The world’s fastest data center SSD delivers incredible versatility

• Whether you choose Intel Optane SSDs P5800X for database acceleration, write caching or in high-performance tiering, they increase scale per server and accelerate latency- sensitive workloads, so data centers can scale with confidence, while deploying bigger and more affordable datasets.

• Acceleration (store data about data).You’ll get quicker access to metadata and indexes to improve database read performance.
• Caching (temporarily copy or hold the hottest data).Write buffer accelerates time-to-durability. Read cache accelerates application performance.
• Tiering (intelligent data placement).Intelligent data placement enables you to deploy multiple tiers for cost optimization.