Micron Technology launches three new data center SSDs, all built with Micron G9 NAND. This expansion of Micron’s storage portfolio includes the world’s first PCIe Gen6 NVMe SSD, industry-leading capacity for an E3.S SSD and the lowest latency mainstream Gen5 SSD for AI data centers.These new products are highly performant, energy and space efficient, and validated with leading ecosystem partners to streamline qualification and ensure seamless integration, making them the ideal portfolio for the widely divergent needs of AI workloads.
“With the industry’s first PCIe Gen6 SSD, industry-leading capacities and the lowest latency mainstream SSD—all powered by our first-to-market G9 NAND—Micron is not just setting the pace; we are redefining the frontier of data center innovation,” said Jeremy Werner, senior vice president and general manager of Micron’s Core Data Center Business Unit. “This launch cements our leadership in data center SSDs and signals a new era of performance, density and efficiency for our customers.”
Micron 9650 SSD: The world’s first PCIe Gen6 data center SSD
The unmatched 28 GB/s performance of the 9650 SSD dramatically accelerates AI training and inference workloads. During inference, high throughput and ultralow latency are essential to enable real-time data access for large models, such as enterprise agents with extended context windows and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. The 9650 offers superior performance per watt compared to Gen5 SSDs, achieving up to 25% and 67% better storage energy efficiency for random writes and reads, respectively. The reduction in power consumption and carbon emissions allows data centers to meet sustainability goals while enhancing performance.
Micron 6600 ION SSD: Massive density with the best-in-class space efficiency for AI data lakes
The Micron 6600 ION SSD delivers breakthrough scalability featuring up to 245TBs in a single drive, enabling hyperscale and enterprise data centers to consolidate server infrastructure and build massive AI data lakes — all while reducing storage footprint, energy and carbon emissions. This offering increases storage density up to 67% over the competition and delivers over 88PB per rack using servers, drastically reducing TCO.
Micron 7600 SSD: Leading performance for AI inference and mixed workloads
The 7600 PCIe Gen5 SSD offers class-leading performance, low latency and high-reliability QoS to support predictable, lightning-fast responsiveness for demanding data center workloads like AI transformation, training and inference. Capable of delivering industry-best sub-1 millisecond latency on the taxing RocksDB workload, the 7600 SSD is ideal for workloads where response time is critical. The 7600 SSD provides the right balance of affordability, performance and predictable latency for most data center workloads including AI.
Availability
The 9650 and 7600 SSD samples are shipping now to customers. The 9650 is offered in E3.S and E1.S 9.5mm and 15mm form factors with air-cooled and liquid-cooled options. The 7600 SSD is available in multiple form factors, including E3.S, U.2 and E1.S with air-cooled heat sink options. The 6600 ION 122TB SSD samples are shipping later in the third quarter of calendar year 2025 in E3.S and U.2 form factors. The 245TB SSD version of the 6600 ION SSD is planned to be available in the first half of calendar year 2026.
