The Intel SSD DC P4610 Series is the company's newest line of data center drives specifically built for performance, QoS, and capacity. Leveraging the NVMe specification 1.2 inside a U.2 2.5” form factor, this focus on storage efficiency allows organizations to minimize service outages and to effectively manage their data centers "at scale". The new Intel line also helps improve server agility and utilization and accelerates applications in a variety of different cloud workloads.
This time around, Intel uses 64-layer TLC 3D NAND technology, which allowed them to increase the maximum capacity of the P4610 Series by up to 20% compared to the previous line (P4600). Intel indicates that this will add further workload applications, including more users for cloud and enterprise service providers and improved data service levels.
As far as performance goes, the DC P4610 Series is expected to reach sequential read and write speeds up to 3,200MB/s and 2,100 MB/s, respectively, while random read and writes are quoted at 620,000 IOPS and 200,000 IOPS. Intel claims this will translate to 35% faster writes rate, improved endurance of up to 35% per drive, and up to four times the reduction of service time at a QoS metric of 99.99% availability for random access workload
The Intel SSD DC P4610 Series comes in capacities of 1.6TB, 3.2TB, 6.4TB, and 7.68TB. We will be looking at the smallest capacity SSD in this review.