The fastest data Centre SSD in the world
As the fastest SSD for data centre storage in the world, the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD outperforms rivals.
Designed to handle vital tasks including artificial intelligence (AI), performance-focused databases, caching, online transaction processing (OLTP), and high-frequency trading that demand extraordinary speed, scalability, and power efficiency. These workloads and more are made possible by the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD for flexible deployment in OEM, cloud, data centre, and system integrator architectures. With a maximum storage capacity of 30.72TB, the Micron 9550 SSD contributes to the achievement of ideal storage density.
Broad Open Compute Project (OCP) 2.0 compatibility is built into the Micron 9550 SSD, and extra OCP 2.5 support is available for adding comprehensive telemetry data logging to track the SSD’s health and performance. In addition to delivering cloud-scale AI capabilities to enterprise data centres, OCP offers intelligent management tools to optimise and proactively address typical data centre challenges.
With important security features including SPDM 1.2, SHA-512, and RSA standards, the Micron 9550 helps protect your data. For extra protection, Micron offers specialised processing hardware with physical separation through its Secure Execution Environment (SEE).
Advantages Micron 9550 NVMe SSD
Increased productivity and efficiency for tasks with a lot of data
Achieving 14.0 GB/s sequential reads and 10.0 GB/s sequential writes, the Micron 9550 offers best-in-class performance. This outstanding speed up to 67% faster than comparable SSDs from competitors helps guarantee unparalleled performance for taxing workloads.
The perfect SSD for artificial intelligence
More power and performance are required for AI applications, and this drive is designed to handle the most taxing workloads. Utilising NVIDIA technology, the Micron 9550 surpasses competitors in terms of power efficiency and AI task performance thanks to Big Accelerator Memory (BaM). It uses up to 43% less average SSD power while delivering up to 60% quicker feature aggregation performance and up to 33% faster task completion times.
Vertical integration and the newest features are provided by Micron innovation NVIDIA
Micron-designed DRAM, NAND, firmware, and controller ASIC are integrated in the Micron 9550. NVMe 2.0 and OCP 2.0 are supported, along with OCP 2.5 for telemetry data logging.2. Its end-to-end security capabilities, which include encryption, SED, SPDM 1.2, and SEE, protect data.
Data centres need storage systems that can adapt to the rapid changes in industry and innovation brought about by artificial intelligence (AI). Please welcome their latest drive, the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD, to meet this demand. This innovative vertically integrated SSD employs Micron’s industry-leading 232-layer NAND and PCIe Gen5 technology. Cutting edge Micron technologies improve performance and power efficiency. Fast and power-efficient, the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD is the fastest PCIe Gen5x4 data centre SSD. It’s not only fast, though.
The Micron 9550 is a highly efficient and quick device.
With PCIe Gen5 technology, the Micron 9550 SSD offers industry-leading speeds and an incredible performance. With the Micron 9550, you can:
- Sequential read performance of up to 14 GB/s is a notable improvement in data transfer speeds that leads the industry.
- With a sequential write capability of up to 10 GB/s, it outperforms other PCIe Gen5 drives on the market by up to 67%.
- Up to 3.3 million IOPS random read performance 35% better than competitors.
- Up to 400,000 IOPS of random write performanceup to 33% faster than competitive solutions.
AI: The PCIe Gen5 application that kills
The need for high-performance storage solutions is being driven by AI, which has emerged as PCIe Gen5′s killer application. AI model sizes are increasing, and with them comes the need for effective data processing. These demands are too much for traditional file access techniques, which result in high overhead and latency. Big Accelerator Memory (BaM), a novel storage software solution, is being developed to exploit SSDs for direct, fine-grain access as GPU threads to big training models and vast datasets, in order to overcome this difficulty.
Direct storage device access is made possible without the need for CPU intervention via BaM’s unique storage driver, which is optimised for parallel GPU processing. This leads to optimised IOPS and a notable decrease in training durations for workloads such as graph neural networks (GNN), which depend on tiny, random read operations across big datasets.
BaM has proven its abilities by optimising input/output operations per second (IOPS) and drastically reducing GNN training times. We set a new benchmark for AI data processing speed and efficiency with their testing of BaM on the Micron 9550.
Performance and sustainability come together
The Micron 9550 SSD is a noteworthy example of sustainability due to its exceptional performance as well as its much higher energy efficiency, which is important for AI applications. Micron testing data shows that the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD beats its rivals by up to 60% in GNN training using BaM, while using up to 43% less energy per SSD. This means that an amazing 29% less system energy is needed to do the same task.
See their technical brief on Micron 9550 NVME SSD and Big Accelerator Memory (BaM) for more information.
Comparably, their testing on large language model inference shown up to 15% better performance with the Micron 9550 SSD while preserving up to 37% of the energy per drive, translating into up to 19% system energy savings.
