Intel SSDPD21K750GA 750GB Optane SSD DC D4800X NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 (Dual Port) 2.5 (U.2) 15mm Enterprise Data Center / High Availability Solid State Drive

General

Brand	Intel
Model	Optane SSD DC D4800X
Capacity	750GB
Usage Class	Enterprise Data Center / High Availability

Interface

Host Interface	NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 (Dual Port)
Total Interface Bandwidth	8 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	2.5 (U.2) 15mm

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	Intel Optane (3D XPoint)
Drive Writes Per Day	30
Total Bytes Written	41000 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	2700 MB/s
Sequential Write	2200 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	575000
Random Write IOPS	550000
Average Latency	10 μs

Reliability

Mean Time Between Failures	2.0 Million Hours
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate	1.0×10⁻¹⁷
Power Loss Protection	Yes

Part Number

MPN	SSDPD21K750G7

Engineer's Note

Compared with the previous SSDPD21K750G7, the SSDPD21K750GA advances the 750GB Optane tier with a dual-port NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 interface and Intel 3D XPoint media, delivering up to 2,700/2,200 MB/s and 575K/550K IOPS for higher-availability, lower-latency shared storage deployments. Its standout value versus conventional enterprise SSDs in the same class is 30 DWPD endurance and 41,000 TBW, making it a stronger fit for write-intensive databases, journaling, metadata acceleration, and cache layers where latency consistency and drive life matter more than raw capacity.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 41,000 TBW and 30 DWPD, the SSDPD21K750GA is built for extremely write-intensive enterprise workloads and can sustain frequent full-drive writes every day throughout its service life. In practical terms, for typical server, cache, or system-disk usage, this level of endurance provides a very large reliability margin and supports long-term deployment with confidence. The SSDPD21K750GA also includes power loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during unexpected power interruptions, reducing the risk of corruption and improving operational stability. Its enterprise-class UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates an exceptionally low probability of uncorrectable bit errors and strong overall reliability for business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The dual-port NVMe over PCIe Gen3 x4 architecture provides both high-bandwidth access and path redundancy, making it well suited for mission-critical storage in HA clusters and shared enterprise platforms.
2. Its strong sequential read capability accelerates large-block data movement, reducing wait times for analytics scans, backup restores, and media-rich dataset loading.
3. The outstanding random read performance enables ultra-fast access to small data blocks, helping databases, virtualization farms, and real-time transaction systems sustain heavy concurrent workloads.
4. Built for extremely high write endurance, this drive can handle intensive daily overwrite cycles with confidence, making it ideal for logging, caching, journaling, and other write-heavy enterprise applications.
5. By using Intel Optane media with exceptionally low typical latency, it delivers near-memory-class responsiveness that helps eliminate storage bottlenecks in latency-sensitive workloads such as high-frequency trading, metadata services, and in-memory database acceleration.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 480GB Higher capacity reference: 960GB In this SSD family, the 750GB model sits in a clear sweet spot. Compared with the 480GB option, it gives noticeably more headroom for OS images, application growth, logs, and overprovisioning, reducing the risk of early capacity pressure. Compared with the 960GB version, it usually delivers a better acquisition-cost profile while keeping broadly similar enterprise-class sequential throughput and random IOPS. That makes 750GB the most balanced choice for mid-scale deployments, such as hosting boot and application volumes for about 40 to 60 virtualized server instances or a compact mixed-workload database cluster.

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