Intel Discontinues Optane SSD DC P4800X Drives

Intel last week notified its customers about its plans to discontinue its datacenter-oriented Optane SSD DC P4800X solid-state drives, which are among the last storage devices based on 3D XPoint memory. The company says its final Optane SSD DC P4800X products will be shipped to customers by October. Still, Intel has a number of other Optane-branded offerings. 

Intel asks its partners to place their last orders for Optane SSD DC P4800X 375GB, 750GB, and 1.50TB drives in a PCIe 3.0 x4 form factor by May 30, 2023, and intends to deliver its final drives by September 30, 2023. For now, Intel's Optane SSD DC D4800X in a 2.5-inch U.2 form factor will continue to ship, although clearly the writing is on the wall for these drives too. 

Anton Shilov
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Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • bit_user
    Intel asks its partners to place their last orders for Optane SSD DC P4800X 375GB, 750GB, and 1.50TB drives in a PCIe 4.0 x4 form factor
    No, the P4800X series was PCIe 3.0.

    https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/187934/intel-optane-ssd-dc-p4800x-series-with-intel-memory-drive-technology-1-5tb-12-height-pcie-x4-3d-xpoint.html

    They didn't upgrade to PCIe 4.0 until the P5800X series. As far as I know, the P5800X series was only offered in U.2 form factor, however. And in a panic, I already bought one of those last fall. I didn't expect we'd be given so much advanced warning.
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  • kiniku
    These were plausible for high-end server usage. But these and the 900P and 905P for PC use were throwing money away. While in some niche areas they had superior performance, they were way too expensive for consumers against their rather limited benefits. No surprise INTEL ended this.
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