Stefan Mileschin

Along with its Xeon E5-2600 v4 CPUs, Intel took the wraps off two new datacenter SSD lineups today. The SSD DC P3320 and DC P3520 are Intel's first drives to use 3D NAND, while the SSD DC 3600 and DC 3700 are the company's first dual-port SSDs.

The SSD DC P3320 uses a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface and the NVMe protocol. It's meant for read-intensive applications for cloud storage and data analytics, according to Intel. That's borne out by Intel's performance specifications. The 450GB P3320 can perform sequential reads as fast as 1,100 MB/s and random reads at up to 130K IOPS. ...

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