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Micron Unveils Portfolio of Industry-First SSDs to Power the AI Revolution
Micron's new G9 NAND data center SSDs feature the world's first PCIe Gen6 SSD (9650), the 122TB 6600 ION increasing density by 67%, and the 7600 SSD for superior PCIe Gen5 performance.
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Micron Technology, Inc. develops innovative memory and storage solutions to address the data needs of the AI-driven data center with superior performance, capacity and energy efficiency. Today Micron extends its industry leadership in storage with the launch of three new data center SSDs all built with Micron G9 NAND. This expansion of Micron’s storage portfolio includes the world’s first PCIe Gen6 NVMe™ SSD, industry-leading capacity for an E3.S SSD and the lowest latency mainstream Gen5 SSD for AI data centers. These new products are highly performant, energy and space efficient, and validated with leading ecosystem partners to streamline qualification and ensure seamless integration, making them the ideal portfolio for the widely divergent needs of AI workloads.
Micron 9650 SSD: The world’s first PCIe Gen6 data center SSD
The unmatched 28 GB/s performance of the 9650 SSD dramatically accelerates AI training and inference workloads. During inference, high throughput and ultralow latency are essential to enable real-time data access for large models, such as enterprise agents with extended context windows and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. The 9650 offers superior performance per watt compared to Gen5 SSDs, achieving up to 25% and 67% better storage energy efficiency for random writes and reads, respectively. The reduction in power consumption and carbon emissions allows data centers to meet sustainability goals while enhancing performance.
Record-setting Gen6 performance:
- Up to 28 GB/s sequential read and 14 GB/s sequential write speeds
- Up to 5.5 MIOPS random read and 900 KIOPS random write speeds
FIPS 140-3 Level 2 and Trade Agreement Act (TAA) compliant options help ensure SSDs sold to the U.S. government are manufactured or substantially transformed in the United States or in designated countries. Pioneering ecosystem collaborations, including prior public demonstrations with Astera Labs and Broadcom accelerate adoption through proven interoperability. A liquid-cooled E1.S version is available for the most advanced AI servers.
Micron 6600 ION SSD: Massive density with the best-in-class space efficiency for AI data lakes
The Micron 6600 ION SSD delivers breakthrough scalability featuring up to 245TBs in a single drive, enabling hyperscale and enterprise data centers to consolidate server infrastructure and build massive AI data lakes — all while reducing storage footprint, energy and carbon emissions. This offering increases storage density up to 67% over the competition and delivers over 88PB per rack using servers, drastically reducing TCO.
Micron 6600 ION SSD: Massive density with the best-in-class space efficiency for AI data lakes
The Micron 6600 ION SSD delivers breakthrough scalability featuring up to 245TBs in a single drive, enabling hyperscale and enterprise data centers to consolidate server infrastructure and build massive AI data lakes — all while reducing storage footprint, energy and carbon emissions. This offering increases storage density up to 67% over the competition and delivers over 88PB per rack using servers, drastically reducing TCO.
- The industry-leading 122TB E3.S SSD is approximately the size of a deck of cards, providing an incredible 2.4PB of PCIe Gen5 flash storage in a 1U server.
- The 122TB 6600 ION consumes only 1 watt per 4.9TB, offering 37% better energy efficiency than the three 36TB HDDs required to deliver the same capacity, all in less than a quarter of the space.
- For storage deployments with 2 exabytes of storage, the 6600 ION delivers up to 3.4 megawatt-hours of daily energy savings over HDDs—which is enough energy to power 124 average U.S. homes every day.
- The 6600 ION SSD provides the ultimate in data protection by supporting advanced enterprise-grade security features.
“The Micron 6600 ION is a game-changer for AI infrastructure, delivering exceptional capacity and performance that enables WEKA customers to manage and process larger datasets with less infrastructure and lower energy use,” said Ajay Singh, chief product officer at WEKA. “We’re also excited about the Micron 9650 PCIe Gen6 SSD, which pairs perfectly with our Augmented Memory Grid™ technology, which extends GPU memory by leveraging ultra-fast NVMe to accelerate time to first token, boost token throughput, and help avoid the memory wall in high-throughput inference environments.”
Micron 7600 SSD: Leading performance for AI inference and mixed workloads
The 7600 PCIe Gen5 SSD offers class-leading performance, low latency and high-reliability QoS to support predictable, lightning-fast responsiveness for demanding data center workloads like AI transformation, training and inference. Capable of delivering industry-best sub-1 millisecond latency on the taxing RocksDB workload, the 7600 SSD is ideal for workloads where response time is critical. The 7600 SSD provides the right balance of affordability, performance and predictable latency for most data center workloads including AI.
With best-in-class sequential reads of 12 GB/s, the 7600 SSD outperforms competitive mainstream SSDs, with up to:
Micron 7600 SSD: Leading performance for AI inference and mixed workloads
The 7600 PCIe Gen5 SSD offers class-leading performance, low latency and high-reliability QoS to support predictable, lightning-fast responsiveness for demanding data center workloads like AI transformation, training and inference. Capable of delivering industry-best sub-1 millisecond latency on the taxing RocksDB workload, the 7600 SSD is ideal for workloads where response time is critical. The 7600 SSD provides the right balance of affordability, performance and predictable latency for most data center workloads including AI.
With best-in-class sequential reads of 12 GB/s, the 7600 SSD outperforms competitive mainstream SSDs, with up to:
- 27% better sequential writes with 7 GB/s
- 5% better random reads with 2.1 MIOPS
- 100% better random writes with 400 KIOPS
Micron's vertical integration ensures that each of these SSDs is designed and manufactured with a Micron controller, G9 NAND, DRAM, firmware and manufacturing processes. This integration helps provide exceptional quality and a more reliable, secure supply chain. Additionally, key security features — including hardware root of trust, SPDM 1.2 (attestation) for identity authentication and firmware verification, CNSA 2.0 dual signed PKI/LMS firmware binary, self-encrypting drive (SED) and Micron Secure Execution Environment — help secure data. OCP 2.6 support is available for the Micron 9650 and 6600 ION SSDs, and the 7600 SSD utilizes OCP 2.5 support.
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