Intel of DC P4500 (solid state drive)

2018: Announcement

In August, 2018 Intel announced as the company claims, the most capacious in the world the solid state drive. The range of the American producer was filled up by model of Intel DC P4500 containing up to 32 Tbyte of data. This volume will be enough to save in triplicate all books from Library of Congress of the USA (   U.S. Library of Congress; the world's largest library).

New by the SSD size approximately about a school line (    30.5 x 3.8 x 0.8  cm) it is constructed on the basis of memory 3D NAND with 64 layers and uses  32 Gbytes / about     x4 PCIe NVMe 3.1 interface. Does not open more detailed technical characteristics of a product of Intel.

The company only calls Intel of DC P4500 "absolutely silent solid state drive" which in comparison with tough to disks consumes smaller power by 10 times and takes 20 times less places.

Intel provided the most capacious SSD — DC P4500 in the world on 32 Tbyte

Besides, the provided SSD for cooling and normal work needs half less air flow concerning HDD. It is promoted by design features which allow to direct the cooled air directly to the processors located behind servers.

The form factor (Intel calls it ruler — a line, a level) allows to place 32 such drives in one server rack of a standard size 1U and to receive a storage system with a capacity of 1 PByte.

Thus, the new solid state drive is intended for data centers. Intel specifies that the equipment is addressed to the largest operators of DPCs, including IBM, Microsoft and Tencent which should use a product for work of the cloud services and data processing centers in general.

In addition to the 32-terabyte version, Intel of DC P4500 it is provided in modifications about 4 and 8 Tbyte of memory. Quotations on all these products at the time of the announcement are not called, as well as terms of the beginning of sales.^[1]

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