And Here Comes PCIe Gen6 With The Micron 9650

When You Absolutely, Positively Got To Have 28GB/s Of Sequential Reads

We might have suggested PCIe 5.0 SSDs are a little bit of overkill for enthusiasts once or twice, as the increase in bandwidth won’t have much effect on your boot times nor launching games.  That doesn’t mean that data centres have been saturating PCIe 5.0 SSDs and are looking for even more bandwidth.  Micron are first to announce a solution to their insatiable demands, the PCIe Gen6 Micron 9650 and Micron 6600 ION SSDs.  The Micron 9650 will come in Pro and Max variants with capacities up to 30.72TB and will provide 28GB/s sequential read and 14GB/s sequential writes, or 5.5M random read IOPS and 0.53M random writes.   They will be designed with liquid cooling in mind, as these drives are likely to get quite toasty.

They also announced the PCIe 5.0 Micron 6600 ION family which starts at 30TB and goes up to 122TB.  These are designed more for storage, the reads remain an impressive 14GB/s but the writes are a ‘mere’ 2.7-3GB/s depending on the size of the drive.  These data centre drives are designed with security and reliability as the priority 

For the PCIe 5.0 curious enthusiast the Micron 7600 Pro and Max which range from just under 2TB up to ~14TB depending on which line you are looking at.  The Micron 7600 Pro is designed with read speed prioritized over longevity, the Max drives will be a little slower but are intended to last a lot longer.

Micron didn’t reveal a lot of details about their new controllers or their G9 TLC flash, but what we do know can be seen over at ServeTheHome.