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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.
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.
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.
The Intel® Optane™ SSD P1600X Series offers two capacities, 58 GB and 118 GB, in the M.2 22mm x 80mm form factor, which supports high endurance and low power. These drives include the following key features:
• PCIe 3.0x4 with NVMe interface
• Ultra-low latency (7μs for reads; 10μs for writes) for exceptional responsiveness
• High endurance: 6 drive writes per day (DWPD)
• Power loss protection
In an environment of mission-critical applications and demanding customer requirements, data centers need predictable, high application performance.
Operating system boot is primarily read-driven, installation is write-driven, and application file system access is typically (and sometimes heavy) random read/write. Intel® Optane™ SSD P1600X boot drives give you predictable high throughput for all types of workloads. In addition, the ultra-low latency—typically 7μs for reads, 10μs for writes—means that mission-critical applications don’t have to wait for the data they need.
While most operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows Server and various flavors of Linux, require no more than 32 GB of storage capacity, most NAND-based SSDs are 240 to 480 GB (or larger). Most of the time, this extra capacity simply goes to waste.
| Capacity | 118 GB |
| Marketing Status | Launched |
| Launch Date | Q2'21 |
| Use Conditions | Communications Commercial Temp, Embedded Broad Market Commercial Temp, Industrial Commercial Temp, PC/Client/Tablet, Server/Enterprise, Workstation |
| Sequential Bandwidth - 100% Read (up to) | 1760 MB/s |
| Sequential Bandwidth - 100% Write (up to) | 1050 MB/s |
| Random Read (100% Span) | 410000 IOPS (4K Blocks) |
| Random Write (100% Span) | 243000 IOPS (4K Blocks) |
| Power - Active | 5.2 W |
| Power - Idle | < 1.7 W |
| Vibration - Operating | 2.17 GRMS |
| Vibration - Non-Operating | 3.13 GRMS |
| Shock (Operating and Non-Operating) | 1000 G/0.5msec |
| Operating Temperature Range | 0°C to 70°C |
| Operating Temperature (Maximum) | 70 °C |
| Operating Temperature (Minimum) | 0 °C |
| Endurance Rating (Lifetime Writes) | 1292 TBW |
| Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) | 2 million hours |
| Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate (UBER) | < 1 sector per 10^17 bits read |
| Warranty Period | 5 yrs |
| Form Factor | M.2 22 x 80mm |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe |
| Enhanced Power Loss Data Protection | Yes |
| High Endurance Technology (HET) | Yes |
| Temperature Monitoring and Logging | Yes |
| End-to-End Data Protection | Yes |
