Micron technology now offers PCIe 5.0 SSD that claims to the world’s fastest in NVMe PCIe SSD world. Called then Micron 9550, this SSD is made for artificial intelligence and data centers that require extremely high write and read speeds.
Micron 9550 specifications
GNN training: Up to 43% less SSD power and 29% less system energy used
SSD to GPU direct IO: Up to 81% less average SSD energy per 1TB of data transferred
Input processing and results delivery: Up to 13% less system energy and 35% less SSD energy used
AI models for language processing use up to 21% less SSD energy
AI use cases Micron 9550 benefits
Graph Neural Network (GNN) training
33% faster training
29% less system power used
60% higher SSD performance
AI training offload
34% faster throughput
80% better power efficiency
81% less power used
The Micron 9550 NVMe SSD is a PCIe 5.0 compatible SSD for data centers that achieves a maximum sequential read speed of 14GB/s and a maximum write speed of 10GB/s, delivering up to 67% higher performance than competing products. It is said to be ideal for artificial intelligence processing.
Other than that, the Micron 9550 NVMe SSD offers maximum random read of 3.3 million IOPS, and the maximum write of 400,000 IOPS.
This makes it better than existing products in market by 35-percent. As mentioned before, Micron 9550 NVMe SSD is suitable for artificial intelligence workloads such as large-scale language models and graph neural network training.
Supported form factors include U.2, E1.S, and E3.S, with capacities ranging from 3.2TB to 30.72TB.