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Micron 9550 NVMe™ SSD - The world's fastest data centre SSD
Last updated 25 November 2024
The Micron 9550 NVMe™ SSD sets the benchmark as the world’s fastest SSD for data centre storage.
Engineered to handle demanding workloads that require exceptional speed, scalability, and power efficiency, it excels in applications such as AI, performance-intensive databases, caching, online transaction processing (OLTP), and high-frequency trading. Designed for versatility, the Micron 9550 SSD supports flexible deployment across cloud environments, data centers, OEM solutions, and system integrator designs. With storage capacities of up to 30.72TB, it delivers outstanding storage density for critical use cases.
Why the 9550?
A new level of speed and efficiency for data-intensive workloads
The Micron 9550 delivers exceptional performance, reaching 14.0 GB/s sequential reads and 10.0 GB/s sequential writes. With speeds up to 67% faster than comparable SSDs, it sets a new standard for handling the most demanding workloads.
The right SSD for the AI revolution
AI workloads demand exceptional performance and efficiency, and the Micron 9550 is purpose-built to meet these challenges. Leveraging Big Accelerator Memory (BaM) powered by NVIDIA® technology, it surpasses competitors in both AI workload performance and power efficiency. The drive achieves up to 33% faster workload completion times and 60% faster feature aggregation, all while consuming up to 43% less average SSD power. This combination of speed and efficiency ensures the Micron 9550 is an ideal solution for powering AI-driven applications in data-intensive environments.
The latest features and integration from Micron's innovation
The Micron 9550 combines a Micron-designed controller ASIC, NAND, DRAM, and firmware for a fully integrated and optimized solution. It supports the latest NVMe 2.0 and OCP 2.0 standards, with OCP 2.5 enabling advanced telemetry data logging. Built with end-to-end security in mind, the drive protects critical data through features such as Self-Encrypting Drive (SED), Secure Platform Device Management (SPDM) 1.2, Secure Execution Environment (SEE), and robust encryption capabilities. This comprehensive integration ensures exceptional performance, compatibility, and data protection for modern data centre and enterprise environments.
| Performance and efficiency | Micron 9550's benefit |
| Sequential read: 14,000 MB/s | Industry-leading read throughput |
| Sequential write: 10,000 MB/s | Up to 67% better write throughput |
| Random read: 3,300 KIOPS | Up to 35% better |
| Random write: 380 KIOPS | Up to 27% better |
| Superior power efficiency for AI workloads | 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 |
To see the full SSD key specification for Micron 9550, download the product brief here.
Product breakdown podcast
We caught up with Andrew Mireau, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Micron - to drilldown into the 9550 in more depth and discuss its use in AI.
Interested in sampling and purchasing the 9550?
Release date for the 9550 is in December 2024. Please speak to Simms today about sampling and availability of this product.