Question 1

What is the MTBF on this drive?

Accepted Answer

MTBF is a pretty worthless number these days. Virtually all drive manufacturers will give a drive over 1 million hours, which is more than 100 years.

A much better metric for SSDs is write endurance. For this particular SSD, Intel has published a write endurance of 20GB of writes per day for 5 years. That's about 36TB of writes total.

Question 2

What is the read, and write speed, and random write speed?

Accepted Answer

Intel claims the SSD Pro 2500s will deliver sustained sequential read speeds of 540MB/s and writes of 490MB/s, with random 4K reads of up to 48,000 IOPS and 4K writes of up to 80,000 IOPS.

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