Features
With right-sized capacity; high throughput and low latency; and excellent endurance, the Intel® Optane™ SSD P1600X Series is the ideal boot drive for the modern data center.
Data center servers are usually equipped with SATA or NVMe NAND-based SSDs as boot drives. But these drives may raise concerns about performance, reliability, and cost, especially for today’s data-hungry, mission-critical workloads.
Legacy Boot Drives Are Inefficient
Boot drives play a critical function in the data center, keeping thousands of servers up and running. Beyond the OS installation and boot processes, these drives also serve all application file system read and write requests. SATA SSDs’ throughput is 6.5x slower than NVMe throughput,1 making NVMe SSDs a better boot drive choice. However, even NVMe NAND drives’ performance and reliability suffer under heavy write pressure. What’s more, even the smallest SATA or NVMe SSDs provide far more capacity than what a boot drive requires, needlessly driving up data center costs.
The Intel® Optane™ SSD P1600X Series solves these issues. It provides consistent performance and endurance across all workloads, at an optimal capacity.
A Quick Look at Intel® Optane™ Technology
Intel® Optane™ technology is the first major memory and storage breakthrough in 25 years. It bridges critical gaps in the storage and memory hierarchy. This unique technology delivers an industry-leading combination of low latency, high quality of service, fast throughput, and high endurance. Unlike other SSD technology, Intel® Optane™ SSDs can read and write simultaneously without performance degradation.
