Intel 3D XPoint Optane DC P4800X NVMe SSD Leaks - its 375 GB

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/10/2017 10:28 AM | source: | 6 comment(s)

Intel is hard at work with Optane tachnology. We reported about it quite a bit the past year, but then stumbled into somewhat dim performance results (compared to NVMe) as well as very low capacities.

A new slide presentation leaked indicating that the first Optane DC P4800X SSDs will get a capacity of 375 GB with 2400 MB/s reads, and up to 2000 MB/s writes.

Intel does mention that endurance should be better then traditional NAND, up-to 20 times better. But that's a claim that is easy to make of course. Intel will be targeting several channels with this product range, including enterprise. The leaked technical slides show a data-center targeted Optane DC P4800X SSD were leaked to the web.

The DC P4800X SSD (codename Cold Stream) will be a low-profile PCI-Express add-on card (AIC) form-factor tied to a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 slot. This unit will offer sequential 2400 MB/s reads and up-to 2000 MB/s writes. This Optane DC P4800X 375 GB AIC SSD would offer over 20 times the endurance of comparable enterprise SSDsThey claim 30 full SSD writes per day (DWPD) with over 12 petabytes (that's 12,000 TB) total bytes written (TBW), which is an incredible number of course. The unit would do 550,000 IOPS 4K random reads, and up to 500,000 IOPS 4K random.

You can watch the leaked slide below.

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Kaarme
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#5390876 Posted on: 02/10/2017 10:51 AM

Still quite small capacity. Likely costs an arm, a leg, and a kidney as well.

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#5390927 Posted on: 02/10/2017 02:30 PM

Wasn't optane supposed to be 1000x faster than ssds?

Now it's run of the mill nvme speeds? Talk about hype.

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#5391028 Posted on: 02/10/2017 05:05 PM

Wasn't optane supposed to be 1000x faster than ssds?

Now it's run of the mill nvme speeds? Talk about hype.

Supposedly it's supposed to be much faster in smaller files(4k and lower) but yet to see any evidence of that.

Disappointing. It will cost a ton too.

Edit: 550,000 IOPS 4K random reads, and up to 500,000 IOPS 4K random write

Doesn't say QD1 so i assume QD32.

QD32 doesn't matter much for normal use, mainly for enterprise applications.
It's pretty good there, 960 pro is like 440read/360 write IOPS.

QD1 is most important but this will most likely be aimed at enterprise market.

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#5391205 Posted on: 02/10/2017 11:55 PM

Probably one individual cell is 1000x faster, but SSD-s have learned to parallelize operations (through their amazingly powerful controllers) so the difference has been reduced to pretty much nothing.

Write 1000 things sequentially = Write 1000 things at once 1000 times slower.

I'm sure the Enterprise will buy this "outdated-before-launch" stuff nevertheless, just because it has the "Intel" name on it. Zzzzzzzzzz....

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#5391239 Posted on: 02/11/2017 12:55 AM

Dare I ask how much?

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