- The 6600 ion offers up to 88 bp for shelf, already 122TB, Micron is climbing ssd far beyond the typical limits
- With 36 SSD in 2U, micron enables 4.42pb in a compact server configuration
- Micron Projects Daily Energy Savings equivalent to the feeding of 124 US houses. With 2eb facilities
Micron has announced a great expansion of its storage alignment with a new entry into the high capacity SSD space, the 6600 Ion.
The company says that this SSD based on PCIE GEN5 is now available in a 122 TB configuration and is expected to expand up to 245TB in early 2026.
The company is positioning its new model as a direct challenge to hard disk units in hyperscale and business data centers, with the aim of offering greater efficiency in terms of energy consumption, physical space and storage density.
Hard disk alternative for heavy data environments
The 6600 Ion is part of a broader wallet that also includes 9650 PCIE GEN6 and 7600 SSD for low latency tasks.
The three products are based on the Micron G9 Nand, which the company states that it allows significant performance and capacity gains.
“With the first SSD PCIE Gen6 PCIE of the Industry, the leading capacities of the industry and the lowest conventional latency SSD, all promoted by our first G9 Nand market, Micron not only establishes the rhythm; we are redefining the border of the innovation of the data center,” said Jeremy Werner, senior vice president and general manager of the business unit of the business unit of the micrónica center of the micrónicas center. Micron
Micron states that the 6600 Ion can deliver up to 88PB for shelf, which is huge considering that many of its rivals are still below 40PB on the shelf.
With support for up to 36 E3.S SSD on a 2U server, the design allows up to 4.42pb per server.
“With the broader selection of optimized petascale storage servers that admit up to 36 E3.S SSDS, the Micron 6600 ion allows up to 4.42pb by 2U server by 2U that offers the highest density and energy efficiency for large capacity workloads,” said Michael McNnerney, senior vice president of Marketing Security and Network in Supermicro.
According to reports, Ion 6600 offers a density improvement of 67% on previous alternatives.
Micron suggests that this could become the largest commercially available SSD, allowing data centers to store exabytes of information with better energy efficiency.
However, its role in the replacement of hard drives will depend on long -term resistance, the cost economy by Terabyte and compatibility on all platforms.
That said, the ion 6600, according to the reports, uses only 1 watt by 4.9TB, a figure that undermines the power impulse of traditional HDD matrices.
Micron projects that the facilities of the scale to 2 exabytes could result in a daily energy saving equivalent to feeding 124 US houses.
These statements point to significant operational savings, but large -scale implementation will depend on more than power metrics.
As Micron Eyes leadership in SSD faster and the largest SSD categories, the real change of HDD will depend on sustained performance under pressure and significant costs of costs in all areas.
