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    6500 ION NVMe™ SSD

    The world’s first 200+ layer data center NVMe SSD¹ delivers best-in-class performance, enables a more environmentally sustainable data center, and offers superior value that eclipses QLC SSDs.1,2,3

    QLC value. TLC performance. Micron innovation.

    The world’s first 200+ layer NAND data center NVMe SSD is engineered to evolve data center economics.

    The Micron 6500 ION SSD redefines scalable storage and is ideal for maximizing IT budgets that can’t keep up with end user data growth, increasing performance expectations, and growing environmental concerns. The Micron 6500 ION SSD addresses all these problems head-on with best-in-class performance that promotes sustainability and eclipses the QLC SSD with superior value.

    The Micron 6500 ION SSD helps reduce upfront purchase costs,² operating expenses by reducing power/cooling, and server/software license costs through chassis consolidation.³ Its 30.72TB capacity and dense form factors will facilitate opportunities to lower your carbon footprint through the consolidation of more storage in fewer servers — all while outperforming and outlasting the competitor’s QLC SSD. For data centers that need to affordably scale storage, the Micron 6500 ION is the answer.

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    Delivers best-of-breed performance

    The Micron 6500 ION SSD offers better overall performance than the 30.72TB competitor’s QLC SSD — with 34% better read latency, 58% faster sequential writes, up to 62% more 4KB random read IOPS and over 30X more 4KB random write IOPS.⁴ This innovative SSD makes it easier to store and maintain the massive datasets that are typical in object stores, general purpose bulk cloud storage, all-flash arrays, capacity tiers, NoSQL databases, content delivery, and AI/ML data lakes.

    Promotes a more sustainable data center

    The Micron 6500 ION SSD helps lower operating costs relative to its competitor’s QLC SSD due to its 20% lower active power consumption, 56% better power efficiency (IOPS/Watt),⁵ and improved drive life enabled by its more than 10X better random write endurance.⁶ Its industry-leading storage density enables nearly 1-petabyte per rack unit (RU) and up to 35 PB per rack⁷ to reduce data center floor space and carbon footprint.

    Eclipses QLC with superior value

    The Micron 6500 ION SSD is the world’s first 200+ layer NAND data center NVMe SSD. With superior NAND to the competition’s sub-200-layer QLC SSD, it provides better endurance, performance, security and energy efficiency to deliver a superior value without the compromises that QLC SSD customers experienced in the past.

    Micron 6500 ION SSD wins 2023 International Innovation Award and the 2024 Edison Award

    Efficient AI starts on the servers that store the massive data lakes that train and sustain AI models. By delivering more performance while consuming 20-50% less power than previous 30 terabyte drives on the market, the Micron 6500 ION solves the world’s hidden power problem: scaling AI in the data center. This breakthrough innovation won gold in the 2024 Edison Awards for Commercial Technology and also won the 2023 International Innovation Award for its role improving AI scaling and sustainability in data centers all around the world. 

    Annual edison award alongside the micron 6500

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    1. Statements are based on Micron Data Center Workload Engineering (DCWE) team comparisons of the Micron 6500 ION SSD and the Solidigm® D5-P5316 30.72TB QLC SSD. Value means the combination of performance, features, longevity, capacity, and purchase price. Performance refers to publicly available information regarding IOPS, GB/s, or both.
    2. Purchase cost statement based on public information available at the time of this document’s publication.
    3. The Micron 6500 ION SSD’s 30.72TB capacity helps reduce servers and physical rack space required for the same storage capacity as compared to smaller capacity SSD. Fewer servers enable lower power/cooling expenses and enable lower additional operating expenses when software is licensed by chassis, CPU, or CPU core.

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