Intel SSDPEDMD800G4 800 GB DC P3700 PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe AIC (Half-Height Half-Length) Enterprise/High-Endurance Solid State Drive

General

Brand	Intel
Model	DC P3700
Capacity	800 GB
Usage Class	Enterprise/High-Endurance

Interface

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

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	AIC (Half-Height Half-Length)

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	20nm MLC
Drive Writes Per Day	10
Total Bytes Written	14600 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	2700 MB/s
Sequential Write	1080 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	450000
Random Write IOPS	150000
Average Latency	20 μs

Reliability

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

Part Number

MPN	SSDPE2MD800G4 (2.5")

Engineer's Note

Compared with SSDPE2MD800G4 (2.5"), the SSDPEDMD800G4 brings the DC P3700 into a PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe add-in card form factor, enabling more direct PCIe deployment in slot-rich servers while sustaining up to 2.7 GB/s read, 1.08 GB/s write, and 450K/150K random read/write IOPS. With 20nm MLC NAND, 10 DWPD, and 14.6 PB TBW, this 800 GB model is a strong fit for write-intensive OLTP databases, real-time analytics, and mixed enterprise virtualization workloads that need both very high endurance and consistently low latency.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 14,600 TBW and 10 DWPD, the SSDPEDMD800G4 is built for very write-intensive enterprise workloads and can comfortably sustain repeated full-drive writes every day throughout its service life. In typical real-world use, this level of endurance means it can serve reliably as a system, cache, or high-transaction storage drive for many years without endurance becoming a practical concern. For enterprise reliability, the drive includes power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during an unexpected power interruption, reducing the risk of corruption and unplanned recovery events. Its UBER of 1.0E-17 indicates an extremely low rate of unrecoverable bit errors, supporting high data integrity requirements, while the 2 million hour MTBF further reflects a design aimed at dependable continuous operation.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. Its PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe design eliminates legacy SATA bottlenecks, enabling faster data paths for virtualization, database, and scale-out server workloads.
2. The strong sequential read performance shortens backup recovery, system boot, and large-file analytics processing windows in enterprise environments.
3. Its high random read capability keeps latency-sensitive applications responsive during heavy concurrent access, making it a strong fit for OLTP, VDI, and metadata-intensive platforms.
4. The enterprise endurance rating supports sustained write-heavy use cases such as caching, logging, and journaling, helping reduce replacement frequency and lifecycle risk.
5. With enterprise-grade MLC NAND and very low typical latency, it provides more consistent QoS and faster transaction acknowledgment for mission-critical services.

Endurance & Reliability

Reference capacities in the same series for SSDPEDMD800G4 (800 GB): Lower capacity: 400 GB Higher capacity: 1.6 TB Capacity positioning analysis: The 800 GB SSDPEDMD800G4 sits at the sweet spot of the series. Compared with the 400 GB model, it gives noticeably more headroom for OS images, application growth, swap space, and overprovisioning, reducing capacity pressure in long-life enterprise deployments. Compared with the 1.6 TB option, it keeps acquisition cost and replacement budget under tighter control while delivering essentially the same enterprise-class sequential and random performance profile. This makes 800 GB especially well suited for a mid-sized virtualization cluster, such as shared boot and logging storage for about 40 to 60 virtual machines.

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