HPE P08863-004 (PM1723b) 15.36TB NVMe SSD Enterprise Solid State Drive Product Introduction
Product Overview
HPE P08863-004 (disk model PM1723b) is a high-capacity, high-performance, dual port NVMe solid-state drive built on the market validated PM1723 platform. It represents an engineering achievement of achieving extremely high storage density in a 2.5-inch standard form factor, designed specifically for data center workloads that require massive capacity without compromising performance and enterprise level characteristics, such as large virtualization, software defined storage, and data lakes.
This hard drive must be used in conjunction with its dedicated NVMe hard drive adapter (such as P13382-001) to properly install it into NVMe supported HPE Gen10, Gen10 Plus, and compatible storage systems.
1. Core features and specifications
Capacity: 15.36 Terabytes (TB)
Provides massive storage capacity in standard 2.5-inch drive bays, significantly increasing storage density, reducing cost per TB, and occupying space.
Interface and Protocol: NVMe 1.2 over PCIe 3.1 x4 Lanes
Provide high-performance PCIe channels to ensure high-speed data access under high capacity.
Form Factor: 2.5 inches U.2 (SFF-8639)
Adopting a standard 2.5-inch appearance, compatible with NVMe supported server backplanes.
Performance indicators (typical values):
Continuous reading speed: up to 3200 MB/s
Continuous write speed: up to 2200 MB/s
Random read IOPS (4K): up to 700000
Random write IOPS (4K): up to 120000
Note: Performance varies depending on server configuration, drivers, and workload. For this capacity point, the continuous write performance is usually better than smaller capacity disks of the same model.
Durability and reliability:
DWPD (Daily Whole Disk Write Count): Typically 0.8 (within the 5-year warranty period). This means that during the 5-year warranty period, 15.36TB * 0.8=~12.3TB of data can be written daily.
TBW (maximum number of bytes that can be written): 22.4 Petabytes (PB)
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF): 2000000 hours
Advanced features:
Dual Port NVMe: Key Enterprise Features! Provide two independent PCIe ports for high availability (HA) and failover configuration, ensuring business continuity and no single point of failure.
Enhanced Power Loss Protection (PLP): Integrated with advanced power-off protection circuit, utilizing onboard capacitors to flash cached data into flash memory in case of unexpected power outage, firmly ensuring data integrity.
2. Conversion rack: P13382-001
Function: This is a dedicated NVMe hard drive conversion rack (or shelf) designed for specific HPE server platforms. Its internal circuitry is designed specifically for connecting PCIe signals, which is physically similar to SAS/SATA shelves but not electrically connected.
Importance: It is strictly prohibited to mix with SAS or SATA shelves. The use of original shelves is crucial to ensure proper identification, stable operation, and good heat dissipation of the hard drive.
Features: Includes hard drive activity/fault status indicator light, drive positioning indicator light, and security lock hole.
3. Typical application scenarios
This high-capacity NVMe SSD is designed specifically for enterprise level applications that require a balance between capacity and performance:
Large Scale Virtualization Infrastructure: Provides high-density virtual machine storage for platforms such as VMware HANA and Microsoft Hyper-V, accelerating virtual machine deployment and operation.
The data layer of Software Defined Storage (SDS): serving as a high-performance, high-capacity storage layer for SDS solutions such as Ceph, vSAN, and HPE StoreVirtual.
Data Lakes&Analytics: Store and quickly process massive datasets for business intelligence (BI) and machine learning (ML) projects.
Video streaming and content delivery network (CDN): stores and provides a large amount of media content such as videos and images.
High performance database: accommodates extremely large databases and provides much faster access speeds than traditional hard drives.
4. Compatibility
Server platform: HPE servers that require NVMe enabled backplanes.
For example: HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10, DL380 Gen10, DL325 Gen10 Plus, DL385 Gen10 Plus, XL170r, XL190r, And Apollo 2000, 4000 systems, etc.
