A new series of solid-state drives (SSD) from Intel target data centers looking to deploy advanced applications with heavy database demands. Unveiled yesterday, the Optane SSD DC P4800X Series can provide either blazing fast storage or cache support for databases, according to the company.
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Intel’s latest SSD series is built on the 3D XPoint non-volatile computing memory technology announced in mid-2015. That technology, created by Intel and Micron Technology, represented the first significant memory breakthrough since NAND flash memory was introduced in 1989, according to its developers.
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By incorporating the 3D XPoint technology, the new Optane SSD DC P4800X Series offers a way for data center users to combine the attributes of memory and storage, Intel said. By speeding up both fast caching and storage, the latest SSD enables data centers to more easily meet quality-of-service requirements in database dependent applications.
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Better Handling of Memory-Intensive Demands
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The new SSD DC P4800X Series showed in tests that it could handle many more memory-intensive MySQL database transactions per second than Intel’s previous generation of solid-state drive, said SSD storage solutions architect Ken LeTourneau in a post on Intel’s IT Peer Network blog.
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What stood out to me most wasn’t the advantage in the number of transactions that the Intel SSD DC P4800X could support relative to the Intel SSD DC P3700, but rather the Quality of Service (QoS) it provided as the number of threads increased, LeTourneau said. If one were to impose a Service Level Agreement (SLA) of a 10ms response time for 99% of all transactions, the Intel SSD DC P3700 is already out of SLA at just 4 threads, while the Intel SSD DC P4800X is still within SLA at 64 threads.
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By improving both fast caching and storage, the new Optane series enables data centers to increase scale per server and…