According to the company, the Micron 9400 is designed to handle the most demanding data center workloads (workloads), especially artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and high performance computing (HPC). The drive offers 30.72 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity, exceptional workload performance compared to the competition, and a 77% improvement in input/output per second (IOPS). The Micron 9400 is the world’s fastest U.3 PCIe Gen 4 data center drive and delivers consistently low latency across all capacity points.
“High performance, capacity and low latency are important attributes for enterprises looking to maximize their investments in AI/ML and supercomputing systems,” said Alvaro Toledo, general manager and vice president of storage. Micron data centers. “With the Micron 9400 SSD delivering incredible 1 million server IOPS performance, each server can load more datasets and accelerate machine learning training, allowing users to maximize GPU utilization .
The 30TB capacity of the Micron 9400 SSD is twice the maximum capacity of Micron’s previous generation NVMe SSDs. A standard 2U 24-drive server with a 30.72TB Micron 9400 SSD brings total storage to 737TB per server. By doubling the capacity per SSD, Micron can store the same amount of data on half the servers, the company said.
This frees up valuable additional rack space and reduces maintenance costs and time spent managing hardware, maximizing IT staff and budget utilization, freeing IT teams to innovate. This exceptional capacity is designed to handle modern, data-intensive workloads while scaling as the business demands.
The Micron 9400 SSD handles 100% 4K random reads at 1.6 million IOPS, setting a new performance standard for PCIe Gen 4 storage. The capacity and performance of the Micron 9400 enables larger data sets and faster the total number of data iterations per cycle when training machine learning models, allowing more efficient use of the GPU.
While many SSDs are designed to read or write only, the Micron 9400 is designed for practical use. Mixed workloads are prevalent in many data applications, such as caching, online transaction processing, high-frequency trading, artificial intelligence, and mission-critical databases that require extreme performance.
Workload performance and power consumption are important considerations for data center operators. High energy efficiency means high throughput for the energy used to complete a task. With 77% more IOPS per watt, the Micron 9400 reduces power consumption and therefore lowers operating costs, carbon footprint and environmental impact.
The Micron 9400 SSD is available in a U.3 form factor, but is backwards compatible with the U.2 socket and is available in capacities ranging from 6.4 TB to 30.72 TB. These options offer data center operators data the flexibility to choose the most energy-efficient storage and the combination of performance, capacity, and endurance based on their workloads. These versatile SSDs are designed to handle mission-critical workloads, whether on an on-premises server farm or multi-tenant cloud infrastructure, and can be deployed flexibly for hyperscale, cloud, data center, OEM, and SI designs.
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