Intel SSDPE2KE016T7 1.6 TB DC P4600 PCIe 3.1 x4, NVMe 2.5 inch 15mm (U.2) Enterprise/Mixed-Use Solid State Drive

General

Brand	Intel
Model	DC P4600
Capacity	1.6 TB
Usage Class	Enterprise/Mixed-Use

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe 3.1 x4, NVMe
Total Interface Bandwidth	32 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	2.5 inch 15mm (U.2)

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	32L 3D TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	3
Total Bytes Written	8820 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	3200 MB/s
Sequential Write	1570 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	610000
Random Write IOPS	195000
Average Latency	79 μs

Reliability

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

Part Number

MPN	SSDPE2KE016T701

Engineer's Note

Compared with SSDPE2KE016T701, the SSDPE2KE016T7 represents a later DC P4600 revision that preserves the same 1.6TB, 3 DWPD / 8,820 TBW endurance profile while offering a more current drop-in option for qualification, lifecycle continuity, and fleet standardization. Its combination of PCIe 3.1 x4 NVMe bandwidth up to 3,200/1,570 MB/s and 610K/195K IOPS gives it a clear advantage over typical SATA and lower-endurance enterprise SSDs for virtualization, scale-out databases, and mixed read/write cloud workloads.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 8,820 TBW and 3 DWPD, the SSDPE2KE016T7 is built for sustained enterprise write workloads and can handle writing its full capacity three times per day across the warranty period. In practical terms, for typical OS, boot, application, and mixed server workloads, this level of endurance provides a very large write margin and supports long-term, worry-free deployment. For enterprise reliability, built-in power loss protection (PLP) helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during unexpected power interruption, reducing the risk of corruption and unplanned recovery events. Its ultra-low UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, reflects a highly dependable design that helps procurement teams minimize data integrity risk and improve service continuity in business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe 3.1 x4 NVMe architecture, paired with multi-gigabyte sequential bandwidth, accelerates database snapshots, VM boot storms, and large-scale analytics ingest without turning storage into the bottleneck.
2. With up to 610,000 random read IOPS, this drive is well suited for latency-sensitive enterprise workloads such as OLTP databases, metadata-heavy virtualization, and high-concurrency web services.
3. A 3 DWPD endurance rating enables sustained daily write-intensive operation across the warranty period, making it a strong fit for logging, caching, and mixed-use data center deployments.
4. Built on 32-layer 3D TLC NAND, the SSD balances enterprise-class capacity, cost efficiency, and reliability for mainstream server and storage array use.
5. A typical latency of 79 µs helps shorten application response times and improves QoS consistency for performance-critical workloads that depend on fast storage acknowledgements.

Endurance & Reliability

Lower capacity reference: 1.2 TB Higher capacity reference: 2.0 TB In this series, 1.6 TB is the practical sweet spot. Compared with the 1.2 TB model, it gives noticeably more headroom for data growth, overprovisioning, and workload bursts without changing the familiar enterprise-class read/write or random IOPS profile. Compared with the 2.0 TB option, it usually delivers a better balance of acquisition cost, usable capacity, and performance consistency, making sizing easier. It is especially well suited for medium-scale virtualization clusters, such as hosting boot and application volumes for about 35 to 50 mixed business service instances.

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