Intel last week notification We briefed our customers on our plans to retire one of the last storage devices based on 3D XPoint memory, the data center oriented Optane SSD DC P4800X solid state drive. According to the company, the final Optane SSD DC P4800X is expected to ship to his customers by October. Still, Intel has many other products under his Optane brand.
Intel invites partners to place final orders for Optane SSD DC P4800X 375GB, 750GB, and 1.50TB drives in PCIe 3.0 x4 form factor by May 30, 2023 and final drives by September 30, 2023. It is scheduled to be delivered. , Intel’s Optane SSD DC D4800X in the 2.5-inch U.2 form factor is still shipping, but apparently there’s writing on the wall about these drives as well.
Despite officially discontinuing its Optane business unit last year, Intel continues to sell Optane-branded SSDs based on 3D XPoint memory for data centers. For now, Intel will continue to offer his Optane SSD P1600X, Optane SSD DC D4800X, Optane SSD DC P5800X/P5801X, and Optane SSD DC P5810X drives to customers. The company will also continue to sell Optane persistent memory modules for now. However, given that the 3D XPoint memory has ended production, it’s clear that supplies of the remaining Optane branded products will run out soon.
Cost was clearly one of the main reasons the technology didn’t really take off on the consumer side. As such, the demand for Optane SSDs with an endurance of 100 drive writes per day is very strong in the data center space despite their high price.
