Introduction to the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD
Micron Technology, Inc. has announced the availability of the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD, the fastest data center SSD in the world. This SSD is an industry leader in AI workload performance and power efficiency. The 9550 SSD showcases Micron’s extensive expertise and innovation by integrating its own controller, NAND, DRAM, and firmware into one world-class product. This integrated solution enables class-leading performance, power efficiency, and security features for data center operators.
Performance and Efficiency
The Micron 9550 SSD delivers outstanding performance with 14.0 GB/s sequential reads and 10.0 GB/s sequential writes, providing up to 67% better performance over similar competitive SSDs. It also boasts random reads of 3,300 KIOPS, up to 35% better, and random writes of 400 KIOPS, up to 33% better than competitive offerings. These features make the 9550 SSD an ideal choice for demanding AI workloads, including large language models (LLMs) and graph neural networks (GNNs).
Advanced Capabilities for AI Workloads
The Micron 9550 SSD excels in AI workloads with up to 33% faster workload completion times and up to 60% faster feature aggregation in GNN training with Big Accelerator Memory (BAM). It also provides up to 34% higher throughput for NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage. This unparalleled performance, combined with exceptional power efficiency, establishes a new benchmark for AI storage solutions.
Security and Flexibility
The 9550 SSD is engineered with a focus on security, featuring self-encrypting drive (SED) capabilities and compliance with security protocols and data models (SPDM 1.2). It offers robust data encryption and options for FIPS 140-3 Level 2 and TAA compliance. Available in capacities ranging from 3.2 TB to 30.72 TB and in U.2, E1.S, and E3.S form factors, the 9550 SSD delivers a broad portfolio of offerings to enable performance, flexibility, and scalability for today’s PCIe Gen 5 server designs.
