Intel® SSD DC P3608 Series Product

Today we’re going to take a look at Intel’s latest NVMe-based solid state storage device, the SSD DC P3608. As the DC in the product name suggests, this drive (or should we say drives?) is designed for the data center and enterprise markets, where huge capacities, maximum uptime, and top-end performance are paramount. The Intel SSD DC P3608 is somewhat different than the recent consumer-targeted NVMe PCI Express SSD from Intel we evaluated, the SSD 750 series, however. This drive essentially packs a pair of NVMe-based SSDs onto a single card, built for high endurance and high performance.



The Intel® SSD DC P3608 Series taps into the power of the NVMe* interface to deliver new levels of PCIe* performance and ultra-low latency. When paired with multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors, the SSD’s unique NVMe dual controller architecture enables highly efficient scalability, evenly distributing I/O across the PCIe 3.0 x8 link to obtain real-world transfers of over 5GB/s bandwidth and up to 850,000 random read IOPS.

There are currently three drives slated for the Intel SSD DC P3608 series, a 1.6TB model, a 3.2TB model, and a monstrous 4TB model. All of the drives feature similar NAND and dual Intel NVMe controllers, though obviously their capacities differ. The 1.6TB drive is outfitted 800GB of usable NAND allotted to each controller, along with some DRAM cache. The 3.2TB drive doubles that to 1.6TB per controller; the 4TB drive has 2TB per controller.

Product Brief

Extreme Performance – Moving
Data Closer to the CPU

The Intel® SSD DC P3608 Series taps into the  power of the NVMe™  interface to deliver new levels of PCIe® perfomance and ultra-low latency. When paired with multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors, the SSD’s unique NVMe dual controller architecture enables highly efficient scalability, evenly distributing I/O across the PCIe 3.0 x8 link to obtain real-world transfers of over 5GB/s
bandwidth and up to 850,000 random read IOPS.


Extraordinary Capacity – Doubling
the Max Capacity

Enabling capacities of 1.6, 3.2, and 4TB in a single PCIe 3.0 x8 low profile add-in card, the Intel SSD DC P3608 Series canprovide twice the capacity in the same physical volume  versus the Intel® SSD DC P3600 Series

Exceptionally Easy – Upgrade       
Existing Systems Today!

The Intel SSD DC P3608 Series are ready to be  deployed right out of the box. They come in a common, industry-standard form factor: PCIe 3.0 x8, half-height, half-length, low-profile add-in card. And they’re designed to work with industry-standard NVMe software and drivers



The Need for High-Performance
Storage in the Data Center 

The digital service economy is driving
the move to cloud computing, benefiting a wide range of users. Developers can launch innovative new services in minutes. IT can reduce operational and capital expenditures, while increasing
resource utilization. And consumers and business users can instantly  access new, rich, high-value services from anywhere

Raising High-Performance
Computing Even Higher

The Intel® SSD DC P3608 Series delivers the extreme performance and extra-ordinary capacity today’s realtime analytics and HPC workloads need. The PCIe 3.0 x8 interface doubles available bandwidth to reduce I/O bottle-necks, while NVMe fuels the CPU with data much faster than SAS or SATA. In one HPC burst buffer use case, a single node achieved a total write bandwidth.of up to 6GB/sec using two Intel SSD DC P3608 Series. Coupling high-performance Intel SSD DC P3608 Series storage with the world’s largest supercomputers can help solve some of HPC’s biggest  calability challenges, including  cost, performance, resiliency, and energy efficiency.



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