Micron 9550 MAX 12800GB NVMe E3.S SSD

Micron 9550 MAX 12800GB NVMe E3.S SSD

Micron 9550 NVMe SSD

The Micron^® 9550 NVMe SSD enhances performance² and power efficiency^3,4 for AI workloads. It is designed from the ground up to accelerate the most demanding data center workloads. Built to maximize GPU utilization, this leading SSD eclipses its competitors in AI-critical workloads such as Graph Neural Netwok (GNN) training, server memory extension (memory-mapped, file storage on the SSD), and standard AI performance benchmarks⁵. Micron IP and components are fully vertically integrated with Micron-designed controller ASIC, G8 NAND, DRAM, firmware, and validation.

Enhanced performance and efficiency¹

14,000 MB/s sequential read 10,000 MB/s sequential write
3,300 K IOPS random read
400 K IOPS random write

Outperforms the competition¹

Up to 67% better write throughput Up to 35% better random read performance Up to 33% better random writer performance

Superior power efficiency for AI workloads⁶

Up to 43% less SSD power used during GNN training
Up to 29% less energy system used during GNN training
Up to 81% less average SSD energy per 1TB of data transferred
Up to 13% less system energy used for input processing and results delivery Up to 35% less SSD energy used for input processing and results delivery Up to 21% less SSD energy used for language processing for AI models

Among currently in production Gen5 data center performance SSDs from the top competitive suppliers of enterprise SSDs with at least 10% of market share by revenue as of February 2024, as noted in Forward Insights “SSD Supplier Status Quarterly Q4” report. Faster performance refers to MB/s or IOPS for 1 DWPD 7.68TB. Comparison based on public information for 7.68TB (unformatted capacity; 1GB = 1 billion bytes, formatted capacity is less) available at the time of this document’s publication.
Performance refers to publicly available specifications for these SSDs (IOPS, throughput, or both) relative to the SSDs in footnote 1. Power efficiency refers to units of work done divided by power consumed in doing that work. Examples of units of work include, but are not limited to, IOPS, MB/s, operations per second, sample rates, and similar data center storage-related activities. Class refers to SSDs that meet the criteria in footnote 1. Based on workload performance measurement by Micron engineering among SSDs that meet the criteria in footnote 1. Details are in Table 2. Other workloads may yield different results. These and subsequent power efficiency and performance statements are based on Micron engineering test results in AI training offload, measured SSD-to-GPU direct data transfer rate with a 1TB dataset, and standard AI performance benchmarks. Values are maximums observed during testing. Performance improvements are calculated as the percentage difference between the Micron 9550 SSD performance and competitor drives in footnote 1.