Intel SSDPEDME012T4 1.2 TB DC P3600 PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe AIC (Half-Height Half-Length) Enterprise/Mixed-Use Solid State Drive

General

Brand	Intel
Model	DC P3600
Capacity	1.2 TB
Usage Class	Enterprise/Mixed-Use

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	3
Total Bytes Written	6570 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	2600 MB/s
Sequential Write	1600 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	450000
Random Write IOPS	56000
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	SSDPEDME012T401

Engineer's Note

Compared with SSDPEDME012T401, SSDPEDME012T4 offers a clean generational refresh of the DC P3600 1.2 TB platform, preserving the same proven 20nm MLC endurance envelope of 3 DWPD and 6,570 TBW for qualification-sensitive enterprise rollouts. Its strongest value versus typical mixed-use PCIe 3.0 NVMe drives is the combination of 2,600/1,600 MB/s throughput and up to 450,000 random-read IOPS, making it especially well suited for read-heavy virtualization, metadata-intensive databases, and low-latency caching tiers.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 6,570 TBW and 3 DWPD, the SSDPEDME012T4 is built for sustained enterprise write workloads and can support writing its full capacity multiple times per day across its rated service life. In practical terms, for typical OS, virtualization, database, or mixed-read/write deployment scenarios, this level of endurance provides ample headroom for long-term operation and makes it a dependable choice for continuously active system and application storage. Its enterprise reliability is further strengthened by power loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during unexpected power interruptions, reducing the risk of corruption and unclean shutdown damage. An ultra-low UBER of 1.0E-17, together with a 2 million hour MTBF, indicates very strong data integrity and operational stability, giving procurement teams confidence in the drive’s suitability for business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe interface, paired with 2600 MB/s sequential read speed, accelerates OS boot, VM provisioning, and large dataset loading in latency-sensitive enterprise servers.
2. With 450,000 random read IOPS, the drive sustains fast response under highly concurrent database, VDI, and OLTP workloads where small-block access dominates.
3. Its typical 20 µs latency helps reduce storage wait time per transaction, improving application responsiveness in real-time analytics and high-frequency request environments.
4. Rated for 3 DWPD, this SSD is built for write-intensive enterprise use cases such as logging, caching, and mixed-workload virtualization without compromising service life.
5. The 20nm MLC NAND provides a stronger balance of endurance, performance consistency, and data reliability than consumer-grade flash, making it well suited for always-on datacenter deployment.

Endurance & Reliability

For SSDPEDME012T4 (1.2 TB), the closest lower capacity in the same family is typically 800 GB, and the next higher capacity is 1.6 TB. At 1.2 TB, this model sits at the sweet spot of the series. Compared with the 800 GB version, it gives meaningfully more headroom for data growth, overprovisioning, and workload bursts without changing the expected enterprise performance profile. Compared with the 1.6 TB model, it usually delivers the most practical balance between usable capacity, acquisition cost, and steady-state performance consistency. It is best suited for mid-scale deployments, such as shared storage for 40-60 general-purpose virtual server instances or a compact transactional application cluster.

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