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Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center Family for PCIe®

Consistently Amazing
Make the Switch to Faster Data
Deliver breakthrough performance with Intel PCIe Solid State Drives.

Breakthrough Performance1 (HET) enables the Intel DC P3700 Series to

achieve 17 drive writes per day over a five
The Intel® Solid State Drive (SSD) Data
year drive life.
Center Family for PCIe brings extreme
data throughput directly to Intel® Xeon®
processors with up to six times faster Modernize Data Center Storage
data transfer speed than 6 Gbps SAS/ NVMe is engineered for current and future
SATA SSDs.The Intel SSD Data Center Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies,
Family for PCIe is capable of reading data unlike SAS/SATA SSDs. NVMe overcomes
up to 2.8GB/s and 460k Input/Output SAS/SATA SSD performance limitations
Operations Per Second (IOPS) and writ- by optimizing hardware and software to
ing up to 2.0GB/s and 175k IOPS. take full advantage of NVM SSD technol-
The performance of a single drive from ogy. Intel Xeon processors efficiently
the Intel SSD Data Center Family for transfer data in fewer clock cycles with the
PCIe, specifically the Intel® SSD DC NVMe optimized software stack compared
P3700 Series (460K IOPS), can replace to the legacy Advance Host Controller
the performance of 7 SATA SSDs Interface (AHCI) stack, reducing latency
aggregated through an HBA (~500K and overhead. Direct CPU connection also
IOPS). At 200 IOPS per Hard Disk Drive eliminates Host-Bus-Adapter (HBA) cards,
(HDD), 2,300 15K HDDs would be needed further reducing latency and TCO.
to match the performance of one Intel
SSD Data Center Family for PCIe device. Comprehensive Solution
Intel SSD Data Center Family for PCIe’s Intel‘s product line enables extensive
Servers can now support more
consistently amazing performance system compatibility, completes
users simultaneously, compute on numerous industry standard compliance
provides fast, unwavering data streams
larger data sets, and address high- directly to Intel Xeon processors mak- certifications, and delivers Intel drivers,
performance computing at lower ing server data transfers efficient. SSD supporting industry driver development.
performance consistency provides The Intel SSD Data Center Family for
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).1 PCIe includes the Intel Solid State Drive
scalable throughput when multiple SSDs
DC P3700, P3600, and P3500 Series
Intel® SSD Data Center Tool provides are unified into a single storage volume.
The massive storage bandwidth increase providing a full range of endurance up to
a powerful set of management 17 full-capacity writes per day, capacity
feeds Intel Xeon processor systems giv-
capabilities. ing data center servers a performance up to 2TB, and 2.5-inch and Add-in-
boost. Card (AIC) form factors. Intel-enabled
Intel led the industry in creation of a NVMe software drivers are provided
new Non-Volatile Memory Express* by major operating system vendors
Proven Quality and Reliability including Microsoft* Server 2012 and
(NVMe™) storage interface standard.
Intel SSD Data Center Family for PCIe 2008, Windows* 7, 8, and 8.1 Red Hat*
Intel is driving transition to NVMe devices are based on Intel-developed 7.0/6.6/6.5, SLES* 11 SP3, UEFI* 2.3.1,
controller, firmware, and leading manu- and the Linux* Open Source development
SSDs by providing a comprehensive
facturing process NAND flash memory. community. The new 2.5-inch form
product line. Rigorous qualification and compatibility factor with hot-swap capability provides
For more information, visit www.intel.com/ testing ensures a highly reliable SSD. convenient front panel serviceability
design/flash/nand/managessd.htm By combin-ing SSD NAND management allowing quick, uninterrupted installation.
techniques and NAND silicon enhance- The AIC form factor conveniently fits in
ments, High Endurance Technology half-height, half-length (HHHL) slots.

Non-Volatile Memory Storage Solutions

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS1
PRODUCT FAMILY INTEL® SOLID STATE DRIVE DATA CENTER FAMILY FOR PCIe®
SERIES NAME INTEL® SSD DC P3500 SERIES INTEL® SSD DC P3600 SERIES INTEL® SSD DC P3700 SERIES
Capacities 400GB, 1.2TB, 2TB 400GB, 800GB, 1.2TB, 1.6TB, 2TB 400GB, 800GB, 1.6TB, 2TB
Sequential Read Up to 2500 Up to 2600 Up to 2800
Sustained Write Up to 1700 Up to 1700 Up to 2000
Performance2,3 (MB/s)
Random I/O Read Up to 450 Up to 450 Up to 460
Operations Write Up to 35 Up to 56 Up to 175
Up to 85 Up to 160 Up to 265
70/30 Read/Write
per Second 4KB K-IOPS2, 3
Lifetime Endurance4 Up to: 0.3 Drive Writes Per Day 3 Drive Writes Per Day 17 Drive Writes Per Day
Latency 5
Read/Write 20µs / 20µs
Interface Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe™) PCIe 3.0 x4
Form Factor 2.5-inch AIC
Height / Weight 15mm/up to 125 grams Half-Height Half-Length (HHHL)/195 grams
Life Expectancy 2 million hours Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), 230 years
Power Consumption6 Active: <25W (Write) / <11W (Read) Idle: 4W Typical
NAND Flash Memory Intel® NAND Flash Memory Multi-Level Cell (MLC) 20nm
2.5-inch FF: 0° C to 35° C ambient temperature with suggested airflow, 0° to 70° C case temperature
Operating Temperature7
AIC: 0° C to 55° C ambient temperature with suggested airflow
RoHS Compliance Meets the requirements of European Union (EU) RoHS Compliance Directives
Software Support Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center Tool, NVMe Drivers: www.intel.com
Product Ordering Solid State Drive Computing Starts with Intel Inside®. To order visit www.intel.com/ssd

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Based on the Intel® Solid State Drive DC P3500, P3600 and P3700 Series Product Specifications. Random I/O Operations based on Thousand (K) IOPS
2
Performance varies by capacity and is measured using IOMeter* with Queue Depth 128, for sequential workload Queue Depth 128 with single worker. For Random workload Queue Depth 32, with 4 workers.
3
Measurements are performed on full span of logical block address (LBA) range on an SSD that is filled to capacity with data. IOPS setup: Intel® CoreTM i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 8GB of system memory, Windows*
Server 2012, and IOMeter tool were used. DC P3700 system performance is configuration dependent. Random performance is collected with 4 workers each with 32 QD.
4
Using JESD218 standard with JESD219 workload, Terabytes Written (TBW)
5
Average latency measured with 4KB sequential I/O at Queue Depth1
6
Active power measured during execution of Full Sequential Workload with 128KB transfer size, idle power is measured when there is no I/O to SSD.
7
For suggested airflow please refer to the product specification document.
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