Image: MicronMove over, PCI Express 5.0! Micron has shipped the first PCI Express 6.0 SSD, ramping up read and write speeds to unprecedented levels. The bad news? It’s not for PCs.
This week, Micron shipped the Micron 9650 SSD, the world’s first PCIe 6.0 SSD, designed for AI training and inference workloads. Unfortunately, those tasks take place in AI data centers, not home PCs.
Micron will ship the drive in both a PRO (read-intensive) and MAX (write-intensive) configuration, with capacities ranging from 6.4TB to 30.72TB, depending on which flavor a customer buys.
Technically, the drives use a PCI Express 6.2 interface, connecting to Micron’s six-plane, ninth-generation (G9) flash memory. The kicker, though, is the performance. The Micron 9650 SSD family performs sequential reads of 28,000 MB/s and sequential writes of 14,000 MB/s (which is 100 percent higher and...
