Micron 9650 SSD reaches “mass production”
Micron Technology says the Micron 9650 NVMe SSD is now in mass production, and calls it the first PCIe Gen6 SSD to reach that stage. The update comes from an official company blog post.
In the post, Micron positions PCIe Gen6 as a step up from Gen5 with generally double the bandwidth. It also describes storage throughput as a limiting factor in AI infrastructure where data moves continuously between storage and compute. Of course, this announcement is aimed at data centers, not consumers. In fact, Micron has already moved its interest out of the consumer market by killing the Crucial brand in December .
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PCIe Gen6 SSD with twice the bandwdith over Gen5
Micron also publishes a comparison table with peak figures. It lists up to 28,000 MB/s sequential read and 14,000 MB/s sequential write for the 9650, plus up to 5.5 million IOPS random read and 900,000 IOPS random write. In the same table, Micron compares those figures against PCIe Gen5 SSD numbers of 14,000 MB/s read, 10,000 MB/s write, 3.3 million IOPS random read, and 720,000 IOPS random write.
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On power, Micron says the 9650 targets performance-per-watt, and states that at the same 25 W power state it can deliver twice the performance of PCIe Gen5 drives. The post also includes efficiency metrics such as sequential read throughput per watt of 1,120 MB/s per watt versus 560 MB/s per watt, and random read efficiency of 220 KIOPS per watt versus 132 KIOPS per watt.
Source: Micron
