- The 6600 ion offers up to 88pb per rack, and at 122 TB, Micron is at the SSD scale far beyond the typical limits
- With 36 SSDS in 2U, Micron allows 4.42PB in a compact server configuration
- Micron projects equivalent daily energy savings to feed 124 American houses with 2nd installations
Micron has announced a major expansion of its storage range with new entry into high -capacity SSD space, the 6600 ION.
The company claims that this SSD based on PCIe Gen5 is now available in a configuration of 122 TB and should evolve up to 245 TB at the beginning of 2026.
The company positions its new model as a direct challenge on hard drives in hyperscal and corporate data centers, aimed at providing greater efficiency in terms of energy consumption, physical space and storage density.
Hard drive alternative for heavy data environments
The 6600 ION is part of a wider wallet which also includes the 9650 PCIe Gen6 and the 7600 SSD for low latency tasks.
The three products are built on the NAND G9 NAND of Micron, which, according to the company, allow performance and significant capacity gains.
“With the first SSD PCIe Gen6 in industry, the advanced lowest capabilities and the lowest SSD of latency – all fed 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. ”
Micron claims that the ion 6600 can deliver up to 88PB by Rack, which is enormous since many of its rivals are still less than 40pb per rack.
With the support of up to 36 SSD E3.S in a 2U server, the design allows up to 4.42PB per server.
“With the largest selection of optimized supermicro petascal storage servers supported up to 36 SSD E3.S, the micron 6600 ion allows up to 4.42 bp per 2U tightening offering the highest density and energy efficiency for large capacity workloads,” said Michael McNeney, main vice-president, marketing and network safety in network Supermicro.
The ion 6600 would improve the density of 67% compared to the previous alternatives.
Micron suggests that this could become the largest SSD available commercially, allowing data centers to store exubytes of information with improved energy efficiency.
However, its role in the replacement of hard drives will depend on long-term endurance, the economy of cost by terroces and compatibility between platforms.
That said, the 6600 ion would only use 1 watt per 4.9 TB, a figure that undermines the draw for traditional hard drive tables.
Micron plans that the installations that evolve towards 2 exubytes could lead to equivalent daily energy savings to feed 124 American houses.
These statements indicate significant operational savings, but a large -scale deployment will depend more on power metrics.
As Micron Eyes leadership in the fastest SSDs and the largest SSD categories, the real change compared to hard drives will be based on high -pressure performance and significant cost advantages at all levels.
