storage

Solid state drives

Engineered to address the growing demands of data center workloads, ever-increasing expectations of client users, and stringent requirements of automotive and industrial applications — Micron SSDs deliver high performance, industry leading reliability, superior data protection, and optimal endurance.

Benefits

First PCIe Gen6 SSD with up to 2x performance over Gen5 drives

The Micron 9650 SSD is the first PCIe Gen6 SSD designed for data centers. It is also the fastest in the industry, demonstrating up to 28GB/s of bandwidth. 

Exceptional energy efficiency and lower carbon emissions for AI

Designed for energy efficiency and supporting liquid cooling, the Micron 9650 enhances performance in demanding workloads with better energy efficiency and lower carbon emissions than Gen5 SSDs.

Qualify with confidence with Micron innovation

The Micron 9650 has a vertically integrated architecture, including Micron G9 TLC NAND—the first 9th-generation NAND used in a data center SSD.

The Micron 9650 is the world’s fastest data center SSD and the first PCIe® Gen6 SSD

AI workloads often achieve less than 50% of peak GPU performance due to data bottlenecks1 . With read speeds up to 28GB/s and 5.5M+ IOPS, the Micron 9650 SSD helps eliminate these bottlenecks, ensuring GPUs stay productive and ROI is maximized. Data centers already consume 1–2% of global electricity, and their demand is expected to see a 160% increase by 2030, largely due to AI. 2 But power budgets can’t keep up. While data center storage capacity grows at a 24% CAGR, power budgets grow at just 7.5%. 3 The Micron 9650 offers power efficiency and liquid cooling support to help mitigate the impact of this growth. Solving all of these has become easier with the Micron 9650. This performance-focused, PCIe Gen6 data center SSD features full-stack integration—from Micron G9 NAND and DRAM to controller, firmware, and validation to help simplify qualifications and streamline deployment. Solutions like the Micron 9650 help deliver the data for a performant, sustainable, scalable infrastructure.

Micron 9650 SSD key benefits

The first PCIe Gen6 SSD with up to double the performance of PCIe Gen5 SSDs

The Micron 9650 SSD is the first PCIe Gen6 SSD for the data center. It is also the fastest in the industry, demonstrating up to 28GB/s of sequential read bandwidth 4 This unprecedented performance makes it ideal for the most demanding AI data center workloads. 

Exceptional energy efficiency helps lower carbon emissions for AI. 

Energy efficiency is crucial for reducing operational costs and minimizing environmental impact. Tailoring the Micron 9650 SSD for both performance and efficiency—while engineering it for advanced liquid cooling—enables AI systems to handle complex storage workloads with greater sustainability. 

Qualify with confidence with Micron innovation and ecosystem collaboration 

Vertically integrated architecture with Micron DRAM, NAND, SSD controller, firmware, and validation helps simplify qualifying the Micron 9650. By developing the first PCIe Gen6 SSD in collaboration with industry leaders, this SSD also accelerates technology adoption.6 Industry-leading six-plane NAND architecture provides higher degrees of parallelism, where more read/write commands can be issued to the NAND simultaneously to help improve performance. Micron G9 NAND offers 3.6GB/s, the fastest NAND I/O rate shipping in an SSD.