Aug 07, 2024 20:00:00

Finally, PCIe 6-compatible SSD for data centers has arrived, achieving explosive read speeds of over 26GB per second

On August 5, 2024, American semiconductor company Micron announced a PCIe 6 SSD for use in data centers handling AI workloads. This SSD is said to achieve sequential read speeds nearly twice as fast as PCIe 5 SSDs.

Micron Develops Industry's First PCIe Gen6 Data Center SSD for Ecosystem Enablement | Micron Technology

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-develops-industrys-first-pcie-gen6-data-center-ssd

Micron announces industry first PCIe Gen 6 SSD with 26GBps speeds - Neowin
https://www.neowin.net/news/micron-announces-industry-first-pcie-gen-6-ssd-with-26gbps-speeds/

Micron announces industry first PCIe Gen6 SSD, claims 26GB/s transfer speed | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/micron-announces-industry-first-pcie-gen6-ssd-claims-26gbs-transfer-speed

According to Micron, the PCIe 6-compatible SSD announced this time is based on

the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD , a data center SSD released in July 2024. The company emphasized that this makes Micron the first company to develop PCIe 6 generation data center SSD technology as part of its portfolio of memory and storage products to meet the wide range of demands for AI.

Micron is exhibiting this technology at its 2024 Annual Storage Technology Summit , FMS: The Future of Memory and Storage, taking place in Santa Clara, California from August 6, 2024.

Additionally, Micron's senior vice president and general manager of the Compute and Networking Division, Raj Narasimhan, will host a keynote on August 7 where he will discuss how Micron's products are impacting the architecture of AI systems while enabling fast, power-efficient solutions for managing massive data sets.

Details about the new data center SSD, which Micron is calling an 'Ecosystem-Enabled PCIe Gen6 SSD,' are scarce, but the press release does reveal that the SSD will achieve sequential read speeds of over 26GB per second.

This read speed is almost twice as fast as SSDs that support PCIe 5. For example, Micron's 'Crucial T705,' which the hardware information site Tom's Hardware has praised as 'the fastest commercially available SSD currently available,' supports PCIe 5 and has sequential read and write speeds of up to 14.5 GB per second and 12.7 GB per second, respectively.

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It is not yet clear when the next-generation SSDs capable of high-speed reads will become available to the average consumer. Neowin, an IT news site, commented, 'Unfortunately, we will have to wait a little longer before we can get our hands on the first consumer-based PCIe Gen 6-compatible SSDs. Above all, there are no consumer platforms that support PCIe Gen 6 yet. The latest motherboards from Intel and AMD only work with PCIe Gen 5 SSDs.'