Intel SSDPECKE064T7S 6.4TB DC P4608 Series PCIe Gen 3.1 x8, NVMe HHHL Enterprise Data Center / High Endurance Solid State Drive

General

Brand	Intel
Model	DC P4608 Series
Capacity	6.4TB
Usage Class	Enterprise Data Center / High Endurance

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe Gen 3.1 x8, NVMe
Total Interface Bandwidth	8 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	HHHL

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	Intel 3D NAND TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	3
Total Bytes Written	35100 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	6200 MB/s
Sequential Write	3500 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	1308000
Random Write IOPS	466500
Average Latency	79 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	SSDPECME040T4

Engineer's Note

Compared with the previous-generation SSDPECME040T4, the SSDPECKE064T7S in the Intel DC P4608 Series delivers a clear generational step up with 6.4TB capacity, PCIe 3.1 x8 NVMe bandwidth up to 6200/3500 MB/s, and up to 1.308M random-read IOPS for significantly higher parallelism in dense server deployments. Its standout value is combining Intel 3D NAND TLC efficiency with enterprise-class endurance at 3 DWPD and 35,100 TBW, making it a stronger choice for scale-out databases, virtualization clusters, and mixed read/write analytics workloads that need both very high throughput and sustained write life.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 35,100 TBW and 3 DWPD, the SSDPECKE064T7S is designed for sustained write-intensive enterprise workloads over its service life. In practical terms, this level of endurance is far beyond typical OS, boot, and general server application usage, meaning it can operate as a system drive for many years with substantial margin. For enterprise reliability, the drive includes Power Loss Protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and protect metadata integrity if power is interrupted unexpectedly. Its UBER of 1.0E-17 indicates an extremely low probability of unrecoverable bit errors, supporting high data integrity expectations in business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen3 x8 NVMe architecture provides a wide, low-overhead data path that keeps enterprise databases, virtualized clusters, and analytics platforms fed without interface bottlenecks.
2. Its strong sequential read capability accelerates large-block workloads such as data lake scans, backup recovery, media streaming, and model or image loading in scale-out servers.
3. The exceptionally high random read performance is ideal for latency-sensitive applications like OLTP databases, metadata-heavy storage, and high-concurrency cloud services where massive small-block access is constant.
4. Built with Intel 3D TLC NAND and enterprise-grade write endurance, it supports sustained daily rewrite-intensive operation, making it well suited for mixed-use servers, caching tiers, and transaction-heavy deployments.
5. The very low typical latency helps reduce application wait time and tail-response jitter, improving SLA consistency for real-time analytics, virtualization, and interactive business workloads.

Capacity Sweet

Lower-capacity reference: 3.2TB Higher-capacity reference: 7.68TB At 6.4TB, this SSD sits at the sweet spot of the series. Compared with the 3.2TB model, it provides much more headroom for VM images, container layers, logs, and future data growth, reducing the risk of early capacity pressure. Compared with the 7.68TB option, it keeps essentially the same enterprise-class sequential throughput and random IOPS while delivering a better cost-to-capacity balance for mainstream deployments. It is best suited for mid-scale infrastructure, such as a dual-socket virtualization host supporting about 70 mixed-workload virtual machines.

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