Benefits

Best-in-class PCIe Gen5 performance

The Micron 6550 ION SSD delivers the industry-leading, high-capacity SSD performance needed for AI workloads. With 14.0 GB/s sequential reads and 7.0 GB/s sequential writes at only 20 watts, it provides up to 250% better performance than competitors’ products, with up to a 20% power savings. With its exceptional write performance, it can write 61.44TB in 2.4 hours, which is up to 250% faster than the competition.7

Best-in-class energy efficiency

Energy use is a primary concern for data center operators, and the Micron 6550 ION SSD helps reduce energy costs by lowering SSD power consumption up to 20%. The 6550 ION delivers up to 226% higher sequential read bandwidth per watt and up to 338% higher sequential write bandwidth per watt. These improvements allow more power to be allocated to critical components like GPUs and CPUs to fuel the needs of AI.

Best-in-class E3.S density

The world’s first 60TB E3.S SSD, the Micron 6550 ION SSD offers industry-leading space efficiency, enabling over 1.2 petabytes of storage per 1U system. E3.S-capable servers can be configured with up to 20 SSDs in 1U, while many U.2-capable servers are often configured with 24 SSD slots in 2U. Comparing these two configurations, the Micron 6550 ION E3.S form factor provides a 67% increase in density.

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Maximized AI efficiency with the Micron 6550 ION SSD

The Micron 6550 ION SSD demonstrates higher performance and better power efficiency in AI workload use cases such as in Deep Learning I/O (DLIO), Unet3D, Deep Learning Recommendation Model (DLRM) preprocessing and AI training model checkpointing. These advantages show how the Micron 6550 ION SSD can reduce overall power consumption in data centers, allowing more power allocation to critical components like GPUs and CPUs without compromising performance.

Improved AI performance with Micron 6550 ION and NVIDIA® Magnum IO™ GDS

NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect® Storage (GDS) provides a route for direct memory access that connects GPUs directly to NVMe SSD storage to help speed AI performance.

This technical brief explains the superior performance and power efficiency of the Micron 6550 ION SSD with NVIDIA GDS workloads, as well as its greater storage performance and power efficiency for AI workloads than competitive SSDs.

Boost AI efficiency with the Micron 6550 ION SSD

Discover how the Micron 6550 ION SSD is revolutionizing sustainable AI storage. This brief video explores the innovative design and energy-efficient features that make it essential for data centers. Learn how you can reduce your carbon footprint and enhance AI performance with Micron's cutting-edge technology.

The world’s fastest, most energy-efficient 60TB data center SSD

As the PCIe® Gen5 successor to the award-winning Micron® 6500 ION SSD,  the Micron 6550 ION SSD continues to push the limits of exascale storage. With best-in-class PCIe Gen5 performance, energy efficiency, endurance, security, and density, the Micron 6550 ION was built to be the world’s leading 60TB SSD. For data centers needing to get more out of the IT budget without having to compromise, the Micron 6550 ION is the answer. 

Accelerate exascale AI workloads. 

Best-in-class 60TB read and write bandwidth delivers faster data collection, loading, pre-processing, checkpointing, ingesting, and more for better networked artificial intelligence (AI) data lake performance.

Outperform competing 60TB SSDs using up to 40% less power. 

The Micron 6550 ION needs just 20W to achieve its rated performance versus competing 60TB QLC SSDs, which need up to 25W to achieve their rated performance. When running at 14W, the Micron 6550 ION delivers similar performance to competing 60TB SSDs for up to 40% power savings. 

Store up to 67% more per rack than competing 60TB SSDs.

As the world’s first E3.S 60TB SSD, the Micron 6550 ION enables 1PB per U for 67% more density than previous U.2 60TB SSDs.

Key Benefits

Best-in-class 60TB performance 

• Up to 226% more read bandwidth 

• Up to 250% more write bandwidth

 • Up to 125% more random read IOPS 

Best-in-class 60TB power efficiency

• Up to 226% better read bandwidth per watt 

• Up to 338% better write bandwidth per watt 

• Up to 149% better read IOPS per watt 

Best-in-class 60TB SSD features and density

• Leading density: Store up to 1PB per U with the world’s first E3.S 60TB SSD 

• Leading endurance:  random drive write per day (RDWPD) for 16KB random writes 

• Leading NAND: Built on Micron G8 TLC NAND, which is up to three generations ahead of competing 60TB SSDs 

• Leading OCP support: World’s first 60TB SSD with OCP 2.5 support, which enables up to 20% lower idle power consumption (4W vs. 5W) via L1-ASPM feature 

• Leading security and features: SPDM 1.2 (attestation), SHA-512 (secure signature generation), FIPS 140-3 L2 certifiability, SGL, SRIS, and more

• Leading supply chain security: Dual-sourced SSD manufacturing sites with TAA-compliant SKUs 

• Qualify with confidence: Vertically integrated architecture consisting of Micron NAND, DRAM, controller, and firmware 

Best-in-class performance

The Micron 6550 ION offers the best performance and fill / rebuild times for SSDs in its class. For applications that do not need all the performance that Micron 6550 ION delivers at its rated 20W specifications, the drive’s NVMe configurable power states feature can be used to lower power consumption to as low as 10W for even lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Best-in-class power efficiency

Sustainable data centers thrive with power-efficient, ultra-dense servers and storage. Better performance with lower power consumption can help reduce power and cooling requirements and carbon footprint through server footprint reduction (which can also decrease license costs). This is achieved while meeting real-world workload goals for high capacity NVMe SSDs, such as networked AI data lakes, object stores, all-flash arrays, software-defined storage, public cloud storage, general-purpose servers, analytics, NoSQL databases, content delivery, and more. 

Best-in-class SSD features and E3.S density

The Micron 6550 ION SSD offers unparalleled storage density and features in an E3.S SSD. It helps reduce data center rack footprint by 67% with its industry-leading technology and innovation.