Conclusion, Pricing, and Final Thoughts
Conclusion:
Pros:
- Outstanding IOPS performance.
- Outstanding Latency / QoS performance.
- Very high density with 2.4TB (or even 3.2TB for PRO) in a 2.5" U.2 package.
Cons:
- Care must be taken to properly cool the 2.5" U.2 form factor under heavy load.
Pricing:
We don't have specific pricing, but Micron gave us guidance that the 9100 MAX Series will come in at ~$1.35/GB. That works out to the following:
- 1.2TB – $1620
- 2.4TB – $3240
Micron also stated that the 9100 PRO series will come in at ~$1.10/GB:
- 800GB – $880
- 1.6TB – $1760
- 3.2TB – $3520
Considering the P3700 launched at $2/GB, these are quite the deal (but still expensive).
Final Thoughts:
Micron has certainly knocked our socks off with the performance of their new 9100 MAX Series. With 2.2GB/s writes, 3.2GB/s reads, and a measured 735,000 random 4KB read IOPS, the 9100 MAX can handle random IO faster than the Intel P3700 can go in a straight line! Our new QoS testing showed far lower latency peaks under a PACED load, and that new method of SSD loading was also carried over to our Latency Percentile testing, where the 9100 MAX once again showed its prowess. If you are an enterprise builder after the fastest thing to fuel your next high-powered SAN build, the Micron 9100 Series is absolutely worth a good hard look.
Allyn:
Are you sure these are
Allyn:
Are you sure these are bootable? Thought I read somewhere Micron claimed “you are on your own” if you try and boot to the 9100’s…
There’s no reason they
There's no reason they shouldn't be really, but the system needs to support NVMe boot. Micron isn't on the hook to support it if it doesn't work, though.
pretty good performing drive.
pretty good performing drive. just to mention one thing however, p3700 was out few yrs ago.. so with this drive being out, we’d probably see intel doing some xpoint nand soon no?
DC really is an entirely
DC really is an entirely different universe from consumer. Price point comparison isn’t pertinent seeing as how DC customers typically have quotes dependant on Quantity of order and specifications needed, not to mention the hand tailoring for the customer Device to interface with the solution.
That’s a pretty impressive
That’s a pretty impressive bit of hardware. Can’t wait to see the 3D-NAND versions in the future, which should be even better.
At work we were paying $7/GB for enterprise SSDs just a few years ago, and they had about 10% of the performance of this one.
Allyn,
The last page
Allyn,
The last page reads:
“Conclusion, Pricing, RSTe, and Final Thoughts”
Were you going to write something about RSTe too?
MRFS
Oops. It was late :). Fixed,
Oops. It was late :). Fixed, and thanks!
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