Terms and Acronyms ......................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Temperature Sensor ........................................................................................................................................................................ 14
Power Loss Capacitor Test ........................................................................................................................................................... 15
2.10 Out of Band Management (SMBUS) ......................................................................................................................................... 15
Mechanical Information ............................................................................................................................................................................. 16
Pin and Signal Descriptions ..................................................................................................................................................................... 17
NVMe Admin Command Set ........................................................................................................................................................ 19
NVMe I/O Command Set ............................................................................................................................................................... 19
Log Page Support ............................................................................................................................................................................. 20
Temperature Statistics ................................................................................................................................................................... 24
Drive Marketing Name Log ........................................................................................................................................................... 24
SET Feature Identifiers ................................................................................................................................................................... 25
NVMe Driver Support .................................................................................................................................................................................. 28
Certifications and Declarations .............................................................................................................................................................. 29
IDENTIFY Data Structure................................................................................................................................................. 30
Vital Data Structure ........................................................................................................................................................... 38
Out of Band Temperature Sensor Read Out ......................................................................................................... 39
SMBUS Command Response on 0x6A and 0x6B (Intel Specific) ................................................................. 43
PCIe ID ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 44
Add-in Card LED Decoder .............................................................................................................................................. 46
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Random Read/Write Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS).............................................................................. 8
Random Read/Write IOPS Consistency ..................................................................................................................................... 9
Sequential Read and Write Bandwidth ...................................................................................................................................... 9
Quality of Service .............................................................................................................................................................................. 10
Power Consumption ........................................................................................................................................................................ 11
C9h – Set/Get LED pattern or pin11 pattern ........................................................................................................................ 27
NVMe Driver Support ...................................................................................................................................................................... 28
Device Certifications and Declarations ................................................................................................................................... 29
Power State Descriptor .................................................................................................................................................................. 34
LBA Format Data Structure........................................................................................................................................................... 37
Vital Product Data Structure (VPD) ........................................................................................................................................... 38
Capability List Pointer (Out of Band Temperature Sensor) ........................................................................................... 38
Register 0x05 read out format .................................................................................................................................................... 39
Subsystem Management Data Structure ............................................................................................................................... 40
Command Response on 0x6A and 0x6B (Intel Specific) ................................................................................................. 43
PCIe ID .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 44
LED Functionality (Preliminary Proposal) .............................................................................................................................. 46
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1
Overview
This document describes the specifications and capabilities of the Intel
®
Solid State Drive (SSD) DC P3608 Series.
Based on the Intel 20nm HET (High Endurance Technology) NAND, the Intel® SSD DC P3608 Series is the highest
capacity and performance in the family of SSDs. It is available in the low profile PCIe® 3.0 x8 add-in-card at
capacities of 1.6TB, 3.2TB, and 4TB. The power requirement defaults for up to 40W¹, and can be set to 35W and as
low as 25W for power sensitive systems. The real world power varies depending on workload and is the highest
during primarily sequential write applications. The Intel® SSD DC P3608 Series features the same data center RAS
features as the other drives in the family, such as:
Enhanced PLI (Power Loss Imminent)
– protection from unplanned power loss obtained by a propriety
combination of hardware, firmware algorithms, and the robust validation at a multitude of corner cases.
Intel 20nm HET (High Endurance Technology) NAND
for up to 3 DWPD (Drive Writes Per Day) over 5 years. The
4TB can write up to 21.9PB over the life of the drive².
End-to-end data protection
and ECC on all internal and external memories in the data path for protection at every
layer.
Dual NVMe Controller
– The NVMe protocol is more efficient than SATA or SAS providing more IOPS at a lower
CPU utilization³. The dual controller architecture allows the SSD to simultaneously transfer data with this improved
efficiency, and can be aggregated through the Intel® RSTe software.
NVMe™ SMART monitoring and sideband health monitoring
– monitor the health of the SSD for attributes like
temperature, endurance, power cycles, power on hours, and NVMe critical warnings. Sideband or out-of-band
health monitoring enables OS agnostic monitoring through the standard NVM Express Management Interface
Specification.
NVMe brings high performance and low latency PCIe SSDs into the mainstream with a streamlined protocol that is
efficient and scalable, with the ease of deployment through industry standard software and drivers. Joining the
family is the Intel® SSD DC P3608 Series - expanding the maximum capacity to 4TB, doubling the interface
bandwidth to obtain real world transfers of over 5GB/s, with a unique NVMe dual-controller architecture to achieve
maximum storage efficiency.
1, 2, 3: Tests document performance of components on a particular test, in specific systems. Differences in hardware, software, or configuration will
affect actual performance. Consult other sources of information to evaluate performance as you consider your purchase. For more complete
information about performance and benchmark results, visit
http://www.intel.com/performance.
Tests performed by Intel. Test and System
Configurations: Intel® Core™ i7-4770 CPU at 3.4 GHz, 8GB DDR3 at 1600 MHz, Intel® SSD DC P3608 Series 1.6TB.