Intel SSDPE21K750GA 750 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	750 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	41000 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	2500 MB/s
Sequential Write	2200 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	550000
Random Write IOPS	550000
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	SSDPE21K750GA01

Engineer's Note

The SSDPE21K750GA stands out in its class by pairing 3D XPoint media with 550,000/550,000 random read/write IOPS, 2.5/2.2 GB/s throughput, and an exceptional 30 DWPD / 41,000 TBW endurance profile—making it an ideal choice for write-intensive databases, metadata acceleration, and ultra-low-latency caching tiers where NAND SSDs typically bottleneck. Compared with the earlier SSDPE21K750GA01 revision, SSDPE21K750GA is the later platform option for the Optane DC P4800X family, giving architects the same Optane-class sustained performance consistency and extreme write durability in a more current deployment SKU for PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe environments.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 41,000 TBW, the SSDPE21K750GA is built for very write-intensive enterprise use and can sustain the equivalent of more than 11 TB of host writes every day for 10 years. In practical terms, for typical server or system-disk workloads, this provides a very large endurance margin and supports long-term, worry-free operation. Its power loss protection (PLP) helps preserve data in transit during an unexpected power failure, reducing the risk of corruption and improving transactional integrity. In addition, the ultra-low UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates enterprise-class data reliability and a very low probability of unrecoverable read errors in normal operation.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe architecture provides a low-overhead data path that helps enterprise servers respond faster than legacy SATA or SAS storage in transaction-heavy environments.
2. Its strong sequential read capability accelerates large-block workloads such as database backup recovery, VM image loading, and analytics dataset streaming.
3. The high random read performance enables dense virtualization, metadata-intensive databases, and real-time lookup services to sustain heavy parallel access with minimal bottlenecks.
4. With an ultra-high endurance rating, this drive is well suited for write-intensive logging, caching, and journal workloads that would quickly wear out conventional enterprise flash.
5. Built on 3D XPoint media with exceptionally low typical latency, it delivers near-memory-class responsiveness that benefits latency-sensitive applications such as high-frequency transactions and real-time decision engines.

Endurance & Reliability

Reference capacities in the same series: Lower capacity: 480 GB Higher capacity: 1.0 TB Capacity positioning analysis: At 750 GB, this model sits in the practical sweet spot of the series. Compared with the 480 GB version, it gives meaningfully more headroom for OS images, logs, metadata, and workload growth, reducing the risk of early capacity pressure. Compared with the 1.0 TB option, it usually delivers a better balance between acquisition cost and usable space while maintaining essentially the same enterprise-class sequential and random performance profile. It is well suited for mid-scale virtualization clusters, such as shared boot and application storage for about 40 to 60 business service instances.

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