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Micron Scales Storage to New Heights With Launch of Two Data Center Drives
World's first data center SSD featuring 200+ layer NAND and high endurance NVMe cache drive BOISE, Idaho, May 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Micron
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[{"type":"text","content":"World's first data center SSD featuring 200+ layer NAND and high endurance NVMe cache drive\nBOISE, Idaho, May 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Micron Technology, Inc., (Nasdaq: MU), today announced the release of two SSDs, the Micron 6500 ION NVMe SSD and the Micron XTR NVMe SSD. Designed to keep pace with the accelerating growth of data, these drives provide a major advancement for data centers by lowering operating costs and improving storage efficiency. The Micron 6500 ION is a high-capacity SSD that offers a superior value over competitive QLC-based drives by providing best-in-class performance and enabling a more environmentally sustainable data center. The 6500 ION is able to deliver TLC performance and QLC-like cost due to Micron's 232-layer technology node leadership compared to the competition’s use of sub-200-layer QLC technology. When paired with Micron 6500 ION drives or other SSDs, the Micron XTR SSD delivers extreme endurance that enhances system performance. “Customers are looking for new capabilities to address the data growth and performance needs of artificial intelligence data lakes and other demanding workloads. As a result, we are seeing tremendous traction on the 6500 ION and XTR with customers who are deploying storage at scale due to their unrivaled combination of large capacity, superior performance, and amazing endurance,” said Alvaro Toledo, vice president and general manager of Micron’s Data Center Storage group. “The 6500 ION SSD offers QLC value with TLC performance and up to a 20% reduction in power consumption versus competing QLC SSDs, allowing our customers to reduce their carbon footprint. Together, these SSDs enable customers to leap ahead and harness the power of artificial intelligence without compromising performance.” Micron 6500 ION SSD: QLC value. TLC performance. Micron innovation. The Micron 6500 ION SSD is the demonstrably better performing high-capacity value SSD compared to the primary alternative1 with: 34% better average read latency258% faster sequential writes3Up to 62% more 4KB random read IOPS4Over 30 times more 4KB random write IOPS at a queue depth (QD) of 128 and over 10 times more at QD1More than 10 times better 4KB random write endurance (RDWPD)5 The Micron 6500 ION also unleashes this high performance in real-world workload testing: For Ceph object storage workloads,...