product brief

Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center D3700/D3600 Series

Break the Storage Bottleneckwith No Critical Data Interruption
High Availability PCIe* dual port delivers high bandwidth, high random IOPs,
and low latency compared to most top rated SAS SSDs.
Intel’s First Dual Port NVMe* SSDs
Today, more and more storage systems
require High Availability (HA) featuresthat allow customers to access data
without interruptions. HA storage is
especially critical for storage systems
using online transaction processing(OLTP) and private cloud storage; systems
that demand 24-hours-per-day, sevendays-per-week accessibility with failover
recovery.
Redundancy is a key feature for today’s
storage demands. Allowing data to be
kept in more than one place minimizes
the threat of data loss due to a single
point of failure. HA storage systems
require that at least two controllers canaccess the same drive through multi- pathso that if one controller fails, the othercan continue to access exactly the samedata without interruption, keeping thestorage system running and serviceable.
Intel’s first dual port NVM express*(NVMe) SSD, the Intel® Solid State Drive
Data Center D3700/3600 Series, provides
new dual port features to support
enterprise storage architecture withhigher performance and lower latency
than today’s SAS products. These SSDs
provide a competitive advantage toaddress the increasing demand for allflash array (AFA) and hybrid flash array(HFA) markets. The DC D3700/D3600
Series provides high availability, excellent
performance, dense storage, and optimal
utilization of platform and storage
resources.

Delivering Breakthrough
Performance for High Availability
Storage Solutions
Matching high performance with highreliability, the D3700/D3600 Series offersa range of capacities – 800GB, 1.6TB and
1.0TB, 2.0TB respectively. With PCIe*
Gen3 support and NVMe specification 1.2
implementation, the D3700/D3600 Series isdesigned to support active/active dual port
and recovery during failover when one of
the hosts is unavailable.
With NVMe queuing interface and support
for up to 80 I/O queues, the DC D3700/3600
Series delivers excellent sequential read
performance of up to 2100MB/s andsequential write speeds of up to 1500MB/s.
The SSDs deliver very high random read
IOPS up to 470K and random write IOPS ofup to 95K for 4KB operations.
The DC D3700/D3600 Series also includes
High Endurance Technology (HET), which
combines NAND silicon enhancements andSSD NAND management techniques toextend SSD write endurance up to 10 andthree drive writes per day for five years.

Built on the Latest Industry
Standards for Streamlined
Deployment
PCIe 3.0: The D3700/D3600 Series is aPCIe Gen3 SSD architected with a dual
port, NVMe controller delivering highperformance and low latency to HA storage
systems.
U.2 Connectors: Taking advantage of theU.2 connector and providing hot-plugremoval and insertion capabilities, enablingin-service replacement options.
Non-Volatile Memory Solutions

Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center D3700/D3600 Series Product Brief

NVMe 1.2: The DC D3700/D3600 Series
is the first Intel NVMe SSD product line tosupport NVM 1.2 designed specifically for
HA storage. Features include:•NVM Express 1.2•

80 SQ/CQ + 1 admin queue per port•

WRR queue priority support•

Dynamic multiple name spaces•

Reservations•

Scatter/Gather I/O•

1MB MDTS•

CMB for Submission Queue

Designed for Data Integrityand Reliability
Designed with uncompromised data
integrity and drive reliability, the series
provides:•Lasting Integrity with end-to-end dataprotection features•<5% performance degradation overthe product life1•

Up to 90% IOPs consistency2

Usage Models
The DC D3700/D3600 Series is a perfectsolution where high performance andhigh availability are required. These
products are targeted for two main
segments:• Mission critical enterprise storage
deployment: Traditional storage
solutions, HFA, and AFA are under greatpressure to deliver high performanceand high availability to meet the needsof business critical applications.
• Top tier storage for scale-out
server based storage: Bringing highperformance to metadata servers andhigh performance/high availabilty tothe caching tier.

For more information on Intel® SSD DC D3700/D3600 Series, visit www.intel.com/ssd

1

Performance degradation. Source – Intel. Data collected on Intel SSD for Data Center for PCIe family on a standard endurance offering. Performance data collected on cycled drives using short stroke approachadhering to JESD218 method.

2IOPS consistency. Source – Intel. Measured performance of Intel® SSD DCS3710 and DC P3700 on 4K Mixed (70/30) workload. Device performance measured using FIO. Quality of Service measured using 4 KB
(4,096 bytes) transfer size on a random workload on a full Logical Block Address (LBA) span of the drive once the workload has reached steady state but including all background activities required for normal
operation and data reliability. Based on Random 4KB QD=1, 32 workloads, measured as the time taken for 99.9 (or 99.9999) percentile of commands to finish the round-trip from host to drive and back to host.

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