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 significant delay to the read operations. The Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X maintains consistent read response times regardless of the write throughput applied to the drive. Read response times remain below <30μs while withstanding up to 2GB/s of random write pressure.³

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 DC P4800X is ideal for critical applications with demanding latency requirements. Its 99% read response time is 60x that of a high-endurance NAND SSD under random write workload.⁴ Optimized to minimize delays in data access times, the DC P4800X results in faster time to insight for decision making.

Ultra-High Endurance
Endurance affects the life expectancy and costs of enterprise SSDs. The DC P4800X is designed for high write environments, and can withstand intense write traffic that is typically demanded of memory. With its extremely high endurance, the life of the DC P4800X is extended, making it suitable for write-intensive applications such as online transaction processing, high performance computing, write caching and logging.

Use Cases for Today’s Data Center
Data centers can explore two key use cases for the DC P4800X: fast storage or cache, or extended memory.

Fast storage or cache refers to the tiering and layering which enable a better memory-to-storage hierarchy. The 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.

The extended memory use case allows an Intel® Optane™ SSD to participate in a shared memory pool with DRAM at either the OS or application level enabling bigger memory or more affordable memory. Bigger memory dramatically increases the size of ‘working sets’ to enable new insights from data in growing segments such as scientific computing, healthcare and autonomous driving. More affordable memory means data centers can use Intel® Optane™ SSDs to displace some DRAM.

About Intel® Optane™ Technology
Intel® Optane™ technology is a unique combination of 3D XPoint™ memory media with Intel’s advanced system memory controller, interface hardware and software IP. This revolutionary technology is offered in several form factors to unleash vast system performance in a range of products.

In the Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X, the revolutionary Intel® Optane™ technology delivers the unparalleled combination of high throughput, low latency, high QoS and ultra-high endurance.