By Darren Allan
Intel has revealed its first Optane SSD which uses the much-talked-about 3D XPoint technology that took the company a decade to hone.
The Optane DC P4800X is a 375GB solid-state drive in the form of a PCIe card, and it’s aimed at heavyweight data centre usage, promising very low latency and high throughput.
According to Intel, the SSD boasts a latency of under 10µs and offers random read/write speeds of up to 550,000/500,000 IOPs.
What’s also very interesting is that the P4800X can use Intel’s ‘memory drive technology’ to make the SSD appear to be DRAM to the operating system, a useful added trick on the flexibility front.
Unrivalled performance
Intel notes that Optane SSDs offer “unrivalled performance at low queue depth, where the vast majority of applications generate storage workloads, which means CPUs are more active and more fully utilised”.
The company also boasted of high endurance ratings, with the P4800X being capable of 30 DWPD (drive writes per day), with a claimed total lifespan of 12.3 petabytes.
The drive is available in an ‘early ship program’ now, with more form factors and bigger capacities due to become available in the second half of this year. As spotted by ExtremeTech, it retails at …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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