Intel releases ssd up to 32tb dc p4500 in the form of a ruler

Intel has released an SSD with a rather peculiar shape. As we said earlier, the M.2 format does not have room for many chips and inventions like the M.3 shown by ADATA a few weeks ago are needed. In the case of Intel, its DC P4500 goes one step further:

DC P4500: Intel launches a full-fledged SSD, never better said

Clearly, HDDs are disappearing from data centers, along with their high power consumption, cooling needs, high noise and low performance. But HDDs had until recently a capacity advantage, which Intel seeks to beat with its new SSD.

Yes, this DC P4500 that we see in the image, called "the densest SSD in the world" by Intel, can remind you, due to its size, of a normal and current rule of 30 centimeters.

You are not crazy, since even Intel itself calls it " Ruler SSD" and indicates that its form factor is " a rule ". Its director of storage for data centers, Wayne Allen, joked about it in a press release published by Intel. The specification has the technical name EDSFF and includes two more formats apart from this one.

In any case, we are not only here to talk about its aesthetic similarity. This NVMe SSD will go up to 32 terabytes, being extremely dense for its relatively small size. This size is intended for mounting in data center racks, and 32 different SSDs could be installed in a single server slot. We are talking exactly 1 petabyte (1024TB).

Intel says it has not only improved the density of the disks, but also the cooling, something that has given two industrial design awards to this type of SSD. According to them, the format (which had already been presented in versions of up to 8TB at the beginning of the year) requires half the airflow of a normal SSD. This would dramatically save on cooling costs, crucial in a data center.

In short, there are markets without competition, stagnant, where we settle for the usual. The SSD market is being the opposite, everyone wants to offer the most cutting edge, and it seems that Intel wants to stand out for both home and business customers.

Intel source (press release)