- Micron 9650 SSD reaches 28 GB / s, but it is strictly for data centers, not consumers
- Cooling the liquid in the SSDs is no longer hypothetical, and Micron is just making it standard
- The 7600 SSD offers an ultra-faible latency, but it still depends on how workloads actually behave
Micron has introduced what he describes as “the first SSD of the PCIe Gen6 data center in the world”, with not yet innurated performance affirmations adapted to the workloads of modern AI.
The 9650 SSD would have reached sequential reading speeds up to 28 GB / s and sequential writing speeds up to 14 GB / s.
However, it is available in form factors E3.S and E1.S of industrial quality, which makes it incompatible with standard office PCs, limiting its direct accessibility to broader consumer markets.
Designed for performance but constrained by the form factor
This new model targets of high intensity AI environments, offering 5.5 million IOPs in random reading performance and up to 900,000 IOPS for random entries.
The 9650 from Micron improves SSD Gen5 with up to 25% and 67% higher energy efficiency for random entries and readings.
It also incorporates liquid cooling options for dense servers configurations, and its reduced power draw and its emissions support performance gains and sustainability efforts in data centers.
“With the first SSD PCIe Gen6 in industry, the cutting -edge capacities of the industry and the lowest traditional latency – all fueled by our first Nand G9 of the first brand – Micron is not only the pace; We redefine the border of Data Center Data Center innovation. ”
Although these specifications may seem impressive on paper, the real test will be in sustained and real workloads in various operating conditions.
Several suppliers have highlighted its potential to support inference pipelines and generation with recovery, suggesting that the 9650 could serve as a key infrastructure component for GPU -based servers.
However, a wider adoption will probably depend on prices, reliability and actual integration of ecosystems.
In addition to the 9650, Micron also unveiled its 7600 SSD based on PCIe Gen5 and the SSD micron 6600 ion, which focuses on capacity.
The 7600 claims to deliver latency less than 1 millisecond on demanding database applications like RockSDB.
With reading speeds reaching 12 GB / s, the 7600 surpasses existing Gen5 SSDs in measurements such as random entries and energy efficiency.
But the allegations of having the fastest SSD must be balanced with real deployment flexibility and sustained performance of the workload.
“Micron’s cutting-edge storage technologies have the importance of rapid and effective storage while AI workloads continue to redefine infrastructure requirements,” said Raghu Nambiaar, company vice-president, ecosystems and data center solutions, AMD.
