Intel SSDPF2KE016T9E 1.6TB D7-P5600 PCIe Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3 2.5 (U.2) 15mm Enterprise Data Center Solid State Drive

General

Brand	Intel
Model	D7-P5600
Capacity	1.6TB
Usage Class	Enterprise Data Center

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3
Total Interface Bandwidth	16 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	2.5 (U.2) 15mm

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	Intel 3D NAND TLC
Drive Writes Per Day	3
Total Bytes Written	8800 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	7000 MB/s
Sequential Write	4300 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	1000000
Random Write IOPS	260000
Average Latency	87 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	SSDPE2KE016T8

Engineer's Note

Compared with the previous-generation SSDPE2KE016T8, the SSDPF2KE016T9E D7-P5600 delivers a clear generational upgrade with PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 performance, reaching 7000/4300 MB/s and up to 1,000,000/260,000 IOPS for substantially higher host throughput and faster response under mixed enterprise workloads. Its unique value is the combination of 3 DWPD endurance, 8,800 TBW, and Intel 3D NAND TLC at 1.6TB, making it a strong fit for write-intensive virtualization, database logging, and content-serving tiers that need both sustained performance and long service life.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 8,800 TBW and 3 DWPD, the SSDPF2KE016T9E is built for sustained write-intensive enterprise workloads over its service life. In practical terms, for typical mixed-use server or system-disk deployments, this level of endurance provides long-term confidence and can comfortably support many years of operation without endurance becoming a concern. For enterprise reliability, the drive includes power-loss protection (PLP), which helps preserve in-flight data and metadata during unexpected power interruptions, reducing the risk of corruption or incomplete writes. Its UBER of 1.0E-17 and 2 million hours MTBF further indicate a high-integrity design optimized for data accuracy, availability, and dependable operation in business-critical environments.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen4 x4 interface with NVMe support gives modern servers the bandwidth efficiency needed to remove storage as a bottleneck in virtualization, analytics, and scale-out application stacks.
2. Its sequential read performance enables much faster dataset streaming, backup recovery, and large-file access, helping compute nodes stay productive instead of waiting on storage.
3. The strong random read capability is especially valuable for high-concurrency databases and cloud platforms, where it sustains responsive performance even under heavy mixed-user workloads.
4. The drive’s enterprise endurance rating makes it a solid fit for write-intensive deployments such as logging, caching, and transactional systems that rewrite data continuously every day.
5. Built with Intel 3D TLC NAND and tuned for low latency, it balances capacity efficiency with consistently fast response times for latency-sensitive business applications.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 800GB Higher capacity reference: 3.2TB In this product family, the 1.6TB model is the sweet-spot capacity. Compared with the 800GB version, it gives much better headroom for OS images, application growth, logs, and overprovisioning, reducing the risk of early capacity pressure in enterprise deployments. Compared with the 3.2TB option, it delivers a more balanced acquisition cost while keeping essentially the same enterprise-class sequential and random performance profile. This makes 1.6TB especially suitable for mid-scale virtualization clusters, such as shared boot and application storage for about 40 to 60 general-purpose virtual machines.

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