Intel SSDPE21K375GAW 375 GB Optane DC P4800X PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe 2.5 inch 15mm (U.2) Enterprise/Write-Intensive Solid State Drive

General

Brand	Intel
Model	Optane DC P4800X
Capacity	375 GB
Usage Class	Enterprise/Write-Intensive

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe
Total Interface Bandwidth	32 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	2.5 inch 15mm (U.2)

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	3D XPoint
Drive Writes Per Day	30
Total Bytes Written	20500 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	2400 MB/s
Sequential Write	2000 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	550000
Random Write IOPS	500000
Average Latency	10 μs

Reliability

Mean Time Between Failures	2 Million Hours
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate	1.0×10⁻¹⁷
Power Loss Protection	Yes

Part Number

MPN	SSDPE21K375GA

Engineer's Note

Compared with the earlier SSDPE21K375GA, the SSDPE21K375GAW represents the newer 375 GB Optane DC P4800X revision, preserving the platform’s standout 3D XPoint advantage of ultra-low-latency 550K/500K random IOPS while giving architects a cleaner refresh path for long-life enterprise deployments. For write-intensive databases, metadata journals, and cache-tier acceleration, its 30 DWPD endurance and 20.5 PBW rating deliver a clear durability advantage over conventional NAND NVMe SSDs in the same PCIe 3.0 x4 class.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 20,500 TBW and 30 DWPD, the SSDPE21K375GAW is built for extremely write-intensive enterprise workloads, allowing the drive to be written many times per day throughout its service life. In typical real-world use, this means it can easily handle long-term deployment as a system or cache drive for many years with substantial endurance headroom, giving buyers strong confidence in lifecycle durability. For enterprise reliability, the SSDPE21K375GAW includes power loss protection, which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during unexpected power interruptions and reduces the risk of corruption or incomplete writes. Its UBER of 1.0E-17 and 2 million-hour MTBF indicate a very low uncorrectable error rate and strong overall reliability expectations, making it well suited for business-critical storage environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe architecture gives this drive the low-overhead host connectivity needed to keep virtualization clusters and database nodes responsive under sustained enterprise traffic.
2. With sequential read performance of 2400 MB/s, it accelerates large-block data movement such as analytics scans, backup restores, and high-speed content streaming.
3. Delivering 550,000 random-read IOPS, it is well suited for latency-sensitive workloads like OLTP databases, metadata-heavy file systems, and densely consolidated VM environments.
4. A 30 DWPD endurance rating enables extremely write-intensive use cases, allowing the drive to withstand continuous logging, caching, and transactional updates throughout its service life.
5. Built on 3D XPoint media with a typical latency of 10 µs, it provides near-memory-class responsiveness that helps eliminate storage bottlenecks in real-time decisioning and ultra-fast cache tiers.

Endurance & Reliability

Lower capacity reference: None in the exact same series; 375 GB is the standard entry capacity for this family. Higher capacity reference: 750 GB Capacity positioning analysis: At 375 GB, this model sits at the sweet spot of the series as the entry enterprise capacity: it delivers enough headroom for OS images, swap, logs, metadata, and short-term burst data without forcing an early move to a larger drive. Compared with the 750 GB version, it preserves nearly the same class of enterprise read/write behavior and random IOPS while offering a more efficient cost-per-deployment point. It is best suited for small-to-midsize infrastructure nodes, such as a 2-socket virtualization host running about 40 to 60 light-to-moderate VMs.

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