Micron Launches World's Fastest 60 TB PCIe 5 SSD
Blocks & Files, Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
Micron's 6550 ION SSD matches the 61.44 TB capacity of Samsung, Solidigm, and WD's competing drives, but promises higher performance as it uses the PCIe gen 5 bus instead of PCIe gen 4.
The 6550 ION is to be used in networked AI data lakes, and for ingest, data preparation and checkpointing, file and object storage, public cloud storage, analytic databases, as well as content delivery.
Micron says the drive is the industry's first E3.S and PCIe 5 60 TB SSD. It has OCP 2.5 support with active state power management (ASPM). This allows the drive to idle at 4 watts in the L1 state versus 5 watts in the L0 state, improving energy efficiency by up to 20 percent when idling.