Intel Announces D7-P5500 and D7-P5600 Series PCIe 4.0 Enterprise SSDs
by Billy Tallis on June 18, 2020 9:00 AM ESTIntel has yet to launch their first CPUs supporting PCIe 4.0, but other parts of the business are keeping pace with the transition: network controllers, FPGAs, and starting today, SSDs. The first PCIe 4.0 SSDs from Intel are based on their 96-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory, slotting into Intel's product line just below Optane products and serving as Intel's top tier of flash-based SSDs. The new Intel D7-P5500 and D7-P5600 are codenamed Arbordale Plus, a codename Intel revealed last fall without providing any other information except that the original Arbordale product was never released.
The two new SSD product lines are the first to fall into the D7 tier under the new naming scheme adopted by Intel in 2018. The P5500 and P5600 are closely-related products that differ primarily in their overprovisioning ratios and consequently their usable capacities, write speed and write endurance. The P5500 is the 1 drive write per day (DWPD) lineup with capacities ranging from 1.92 TB up to 7.68 TB, while the P5600 is the 3 DWPD tier with capacities from 1.6 TB to 6.4 TB. These serve as the successors to the P4510 and P4610 Cliffdale Refresh drives, and as such we expect some follow-on models to introduce the EDSFF form factor options and QLC-based drives that are still due for an update.
Intel PCIe 4.0 Enterprise SSDs | |||
D7-P5500 | D7-P5600 | ||
Form Factor | U.2 2.5" 15mm | ||
Interface | PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.3c | ||
Capacities | 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB |
1.6TB, 3.2TB, 6.4TB |
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NAND | Intel 96L 3D TLC | ||
Sequential Read | 7000 MB/s | ||
Sequential Write | 4300 MB/s | ||
Random Read (4 kB) | 1M IOPS | ||
Random Write (4 kB) | 130k IOPS | 260k IOPS | |
Power | Operating | 20 W | |
Idle | 5 W | ||
Write Endurance | 1 DWPD | 3 DWPD | |
Warranty | 5 years |
The switch to PCIe 4.0 enables a big jump in maximum throughputs supported: from 3.2 GB/s up to 7 GB/s for sequential reads, while sequential writes show a more modest increase from 3.2 GB/s to 4.3 GB/s. Random reads now hit 1M IOPS compared to about 651k IOPS from the previous generation, and random writes are still bottlenecked by the flash itself with a peak of 260k IOPS from the new P5600.
Intel hasn't shared information about the internal architecture of the new SSDs, so we don't know if they're still using a 12-channel controller design like their previous generation. Intel does tout improved QoS and a handful of new features, including a re-working of their TRIM implementation to reduce its interference with the performance of more important IO commands.
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shabby - Friday, June 19, 2020 - link
Unlikely, would be too pricey.Deicidium369 - Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - link
Would more than likely tap SamsungBilly Tallis - Thursday, June 25, 2020 - link
I'm not sure the PS5 market is big enough to entice Samsung to develop a custom SSD controller ASIC. They tend to prefer very high-volume products, or at least high-margin (ie. enterprise pricing, not consumer). There are several companies that are much more likely partners for Sony.hanselltc - Sunday, June 21, 2020 - link
That is a lotta random readsDug - Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - link
1M IOPS for both versions and across all sizes? If only our current servers had PCIe 4.0 I could replace many arrays with just two drives.