Intel Introduces PCIe M.2 for the Data Center with DC P3100 Series
Today Intel further expanded its portfolio of 3D NAND solid state drives (SSDs) with the introduction of the Intel SSD DC P3100 Series the companys first PCIe / NVMe-based SSD on the M.2 form factor for the data center. The new drive extends Intels 30-year commitment in offering innovative memory technologies, and long-term plan to transform the economics of storage across market segments with trusted, breakthrough Intel 3D NAND SSDs.
The DC P3100 Series offers the high bandwidth performance of PCIe at SATA-level value for read intensive data center applications. It is ideal as a boot drive for cloud providers, web hosting. The DC P3100 Series has a lower total cost of ownership than traditional hard disk drives through lower power utilization, simpler maintenance and reduced annual failure rates all backed by Intel quality and reliability, including a 5-year warranty. The DC P3100 is validated across data center workloads and offers better together functionality with Intel Xeon processors.
The Intel SSD DC P3100 Series is available in 128GB to 1.0TB capacities starting October 25th through a variety of channel partners. The performance of each capacity is different, but the 1TB DC P3100 has sequential read/write speeds of 1,800 MB/s and 175 MB/s. The read performance is phenomenal on these drives as most cloud and web servers do mostly reads. Intel specifically notes that this drive is ideal for boot, search indexing, edge caching and web hosting. The Random 4K performance is 114,000 IOPS read and 9,000 IOPS write. If you drop down to the entry-level 128GB drive you are looking at sequential performance numbers of 720 MB/s read and 55 MB/s write. Not super fast, but these are aimed at those with value-based needs in the data center.
For more information on the DC P3100 Series, and all Intel 3D NAND SSDs visit Intel.com/SSD or here.