Today Micron extends its industry leadership in storage with the launch of three new data center SSDs all built with Micron G9 NAND.
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.
“With the industry’s first PCIe Gen6 SSD, industry-leading capacities and the lowest latency mainstream SSD—all powered by our first-to-market G9 NAND—Micron is not just setting the pace; we are redefining the frontier of data center innovation,” said Jeremy Werner, senior vice president and general manager of Micron’s Core Data Center Business Unit. “This launch cements our leadership in data center SSDs and signals a new era of performance, density and efficiency for our customers.”
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.
