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The Intel P3700 NVMe Enterprise Performance PCIe SSDs are a new family of high-performance solid-state drives. This product guide introduces the adapters and describes their features and specifications, and provides compatibility information. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the P3700 SSDs and consider their use in IT solutions.
Withdrawn: All drives listed in this product guide are withdrawn from marketing.
Introduction
The Intel P3700 NVMe Enterprise Performance PCIe SSDs are a new family of solid-state drives (SSDs) that provides high-performance data transfers from storage, at rates significantly faster than SAS or SATA-based SSDs.
The Intel P3700 NVMe Enterprise Performance PCIe SSDs are based on Intel-developed controller, firmware, and leading manufacturing process NAND flash memory. Rigorous qualification and compatibility testing by Lenovo ensures a highly reliable SSD. By combining Flash NAND management techniques and NAND silicon enhancements, High Endurance Technology (HET) enables the P3700 Series to achieve up to 17 drive writes per day over a 5 year drive life.
The P3700 SSD is shown in the following figure.
Figure 1. Intel P3700 NVMe Enterprise Performance PCIe SSDs
Did You Know?
NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is a technology that overcomes SAS/SATA SSD performance limitations by optimizing hardware and software to take full advantage of flash technology. Intel Xeon processors efficiently transfer data in fewer clock cycles with the NVMe optimized software stack compared to the legacy Advance Host Controller Interface (AHCI) stack, thereby reducing latency and overhead. These SSDs connect directly to the processor via the PCIe bus, further reducing latency and TCO.
Part number information
The following table lists the ordering part numbers and feature codes for the SSDs.
Withdrawn: All drives listed in this product guide are withdrawn from marketing.
| Part number | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 00YA818 | AT7V | Intel P3700 400GB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD |
| 00YA821 | AT7W | Intel P3700 800GB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD |
| 00YA824 | AT7X | Intel P3700 1.6TB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD |
| 00YA827 | AT7Y | Intel P3700 2.0TB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD |
The part numbers for the adapters include the following items:
- One drive with a System x G3HS tray attached
- Warranty flyer and Important Notices document
Features
Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) is new PCIe 3.0 high performance SSD technology that provides high I/O throughput and low latency. NVMe interfaces remove SAS/SATA bottlenecks and unleash all of the capabilities of contemporary NAND flash memory. Each NVMe PCI SSD has direct PCIe 3.0 x4 connection, which provides at least 2x more bandwidth and 2x less latency than SATA/SAS-based SSD solutions. NVMe drives are also optimized for heavy multi-threaded workloads by using internal parallelism and many other improvements, such as enlarged I/O queues.
The Intel P3700 NVMe drives have the following key characteristics:
- Direct PCIe 3.0 connection. There is a PCIe 3.0 x4 connection for each NVMe drive with up to 4 GBps overall throughput.
- Low I/O latency. The average read/write latency for the P3700 drives is 20 µs.
- Up to 2800 MBps sequential read speed with 128 KB blocks, and up to 2000 MBps sequential write speed with 128 KB blocks per drive.
- Up to 460,000 IOPS of random read with 4 KB blocks, and up to 175,000 IOPS of random writes with 4 KB blocks.
- A total of 65,536 I/O queues supported and 65,536 commands per queue supported, which provides great performance on heavily multithreaded workloads with combined sequential and random access.
- High endurance: The P3700 drives include High Endurance Technology (HET) which combines NAND silicon enhancements and SSD NAND management techniques to extend SSD write endurance up to 17 drive writes per day (DWPD) for 5 years.
- Available drive capacities or 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB, and 2.0 TB.
- Support for software RAID under operating system management.
- Hot add and hot remove features are available with supported operating systems.
- Most operating systems have native support of NVMe drives or provides support through software drivers, such as RHEL 6.5 and later, RHEL 7.0 and later, SLES 11 SP3, SLES 12, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and VMware vSphere (ESXi) 5.5 and 6.0.
- NVMe drives can be used as boot drives.
Technical specifications
The following table present technical specifications for the Intel P3700 NVMe Enterprise Performance PCIe SSDs.
| Feature | 400 GB drive | 800 GB drive | 1.6 TB drive | 2.0 TB drive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part number | 00YA818 | 00YA821 | 00YA824 | 00YA827 |
| Form factor | 2.5-inch G3HS | 2.5-inch G3HS | 2.5-inch G3HS | 2.5-inch G3HS |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Capacity | 400 GB | 800 GB | 1.6 TB | 2.0 TB |
| Endurance (total bytes written) |
7.3 PB | 14.6 PB | 43.8 PB | 62.05 PB |
| Endurance (drive writes per day over 5 years) |
10 DWPD | 10 DWPD | 15 DWPD | 17 DWPD |
| Data reliability | < 1 in 1017 bits read | < 1 in 1017 bits read | < 1 in 1017 bits read | < 1 in 1017 bits read |
| MTBF, hours | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 |
| IOPS read (4 KB blocks) | 450,000 | 450,000 | 450,000 | 450,000 |
| IOPS write (4 KB blocks) | 75,000 | 90,000 | 150,000 | 175,000 |
| Sequential read rate | 2.7 GBps | 2.8 GBps | 2.8 GBps | 2.8 GBps |
| Sequential write rate | 1.08 GBps | 1.9 GBps | 1.9 GBps | 1.9 GBps |
| Read access latency sequential* | 20 µs | 20 µs | 20 µs | 20 µs |
| Read access latency random* | 115 µs | 115 µs | 115 µs | 115 µs |
| Write access latency sequential* | 20 µs | 20 µs | 20 µs | 20 µs |
| Write access latency random* | 25 µs | 25 µs | 25 µs | 25 µs |
| Shock, operating | 1,000 G (Max) at 0.5 ms | 1,000 G (Max) at 0.5 ms | 1,000 G (Max) at 0.5 ms | 1,000 G (Max) at 0.5 ms |
| Vibration, max, operating | 2.17 GRMS (5-700 Hz) | 2.17 GRMS (5-700 Hz) | 2.17 GRMS (5-700 Hz) | 2.17 GRMS (5-700 Hz) |
| Typical power | 12 W | 18 W | 22 W | 25 W |
* Latency measured using 4 KB transfer size with queue depth = 1 on a sequential workload using Windows Server 2012 R2 drivers. Power mode set at 25W.
Server support
The following tables list the server compatibility information for the Intel P3700 NVMe Enterprise Performance PCIe SSDs.
Support for System x and dense servers with Xeon E5/E7 v4 and E3 v5 processors
| Part number |
Description |
x3250 M6 (3943)
|
x3250 M6 (3633)
|
x3550 M5 (8869)
|
x3650 M5 (8871)
|
x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (6241, E7 v4)
|
nx360 M5 (5465, E5-2600 v4)
|
sd350 (5493)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00YA818 | P3700 400GB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| 00YA821 | P3700 800GB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| 00YA824 | P3700 1.6TB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| 00YA827 | P3700 2.0TB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
Support for System x and dense servers with Intel Xeon v3 processors
| Part number |
Description |
x3100 M5 (5457)
|
x3250 M5 (5458)
|
x3500 M5 (5464)
|
x3550 M5 (5463)
|
x3650 M5 (5462)
|
x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (6241, E7 v3)
|
nx360 M5 (5465)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00YA818 | Intel P3700 400GB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | N |
| 00YA821 | Intel P3700 800GB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | N |
| 00YA824 | Intel P3700 1.6TB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | N |
| 00YA827 | Intel P3700 2.0TB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | N |
Support for servers with Intel Xeon v2 processors
| Part number |
Description |
x3500 M4 (7383, E5-2600 v2)
|
x3530 M4 (7160, E5-2400 v2)
|
x3550 M4 (7914, E5-2600 v2)
|
x3630 M4 (7158, E5-2400 v2)
|
x3650 M4 (7915, E5-2600 v2)
|
x3650 M4 BD (5466)
|
x3650 M4 HD (5460)
|
x3750 M4 (8752)
|
x3750 M4 (8753)
|
x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (3837)
|
x3850 X6/x3950 X6 (6241, E7 v2)
|
dx360 M4 (E5-2600 v2)
|
nx360 M4 (5455)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00YA818 | Intel P3700 400GB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N |
| 00YA821 | Intel P3700 800GB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N |
| 00YA824 | Intel P3700 1.6TB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N |
| 00YA827 | Intel P3700 2.0TB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N |
Support for Flex System compute nodes
| Part number |
Description |
x220 (7906)
|
x222 (7916)
|
x240 (8737, E5-2600)
|
x240 (8737, E5-2600 v2)
|
x240 (7162)
|
x240 M5 (9532, v3 & v4)
|
x440 (7917)
|
x440 (7167)
|
x880/x480/x280 X6 (7903)
|
x280/x480/x880 X6 (7196)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00YA818 | Intel P3700 400GB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N |
| 00YA821 | Intel P3700 800GB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N |
| 00YA824 | Intel P3700 1.6TB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N |
| 00YA827 | Intel P3700 2.0TB NVMe 2.5" G3HS Enterprise Performance PCIe SSD | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N |
Operating system support
The Intel P3700 NVMe Enterprise Performance PCIe SSDs support the following operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64/EM64T
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 with Xen for AMD64/EM64T
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 with XEN
- VMware vSphere 5.5 (ESXi)
- VMware vSphere 6.0 (ESXi)
For more information about the specific supported versions and service packs, see ServerProven:
http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/xseries/storage/hssdmatrix.shtml
Warranty
The Intel P3700 NVMe Enterprise Performance PCIe SSDs carry a 1-year, customer-replaceable unit (CRU) limited warranty. When installed in a supported Lenovo server, these drives assume the system’s base warranty and any warranty upgrade.
Solid State Memory cells have an intrinsic, finite number of program/erase cycles that each cell can incur. As a result, each solid state device has a maximum amount of program/erase cycles to which it can be subjected. The warranty for Lenovo solid state drives (SSDs) is limited to drives that have not reached the maximum guaranteed number of program/erase cycles, as documented in the Official Published Specifications for the SSD product. A drive that reaches this limit may fail to operate according to its Specifications.
Physical specifications
The Intel P3700 NVMe Enterprise Performance PCIe SSDs have the following physical specifications.
Dimensions and weight (approximate):
- Height: 7 mm (0.3 in.)
- Width: 70 mm (2.8 in.)
- Depth: 100 mm (4.0 in.)
- Weight:
- 400 GB and 800 GB drives: 115 g (0.25 lb)
- 1.6 TB and 2.0 TB drives: 125 g (0.27 lb)
Shipping dimensions:
- Height: 25 mm (1.0 in.)
- Width: 139 mm (5.4 in.)
- Depth: 106 mm (4.1 in.)
Operating environment
The Intel P3700 NVMe Enterprise Performance PCIe SSDs are supported in the following environment:
- Temperature (operational): 0 - 35 °C (32 - 95 °F) at 0 - 3,048 m (0 - 10,000 ft)
- Relative humidity: 5 - 95% (non-condensing)
- Maximum altitude (operational): 3,048 m (10,000 ft)
- Shock: 1,000 G (Max) at 0.5 ms
- Vibration: 2.17 GRMS (5-700 Hz)
Agency approvals
The Intel P3700 NVMe Enterprise Performance PCIe SSDs conform to the following regulations:
- FCC Title 47, Part 15 Subpart B, Class B
- CAN ICES-3 (B) NMB-3 (B)
- EN 55022: 2010
- EN 61000-3-2: 2006 plus A1:2009 and A2:2009
- EN 61000-3-3: 2008
- EN 55024: 2010
- VCCI V-3/2013.04 Class B
- ANSI C63.4: 2009 Class B
- BSMI CNS 13438: 2006 Class B
- AS/NZS CISPR 22
- KCC MSIP-REM-CPU-SSDPIA
- EN 60950-1:2006 + A11:2009 + A1:2010 + A12:2011
- DIRECTIVE 2011/65/EU
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