Micron Technology announced that the new Micron 9400 NVMe SSDs are in mass production, with availability open to global OEMs and channel partners. The new SSDs will be able to be used in high-level storage capacity servers, such as data centers, using AI development, machine learning, and HPC software suites. The Micron 9400 NVMe SSD will produce over 30TB of storage capacity and a 77% improvement in IOPS (input and output operations per second). Micron expects the new drive to deliver incredible performance on workloads compared to competing companies.
Micron has developed the world’s first PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs with 30TB storage capacities for HPC, AI, ML, and more.
Micron’s new 9400 SSD is the fastest PCIe 4.0 U.3 drive shipped for data centers that consistently produce low levels of latency. Compared to previous Micron NVME SSDs, the new 9400 SSD is twice as large for capacity. Standard two-rack 24-drive servers using the previous generation of Micron SSDs provided up to 737 TB of storage capacity on each server. Now, the enterprise can provide equal storage with half the number of disks used, which is a key cost-saving feature for enterprises.
High performance, capacity and low latency are essential features for enterprises looking to maximize their investments in AI/ML and supercomputing systems. With its industry-leading 30TB capacity and blistering performance with over 1 million IOPS in mixed workloads, the Micron 9400 SSD fits larger data sets into every server and accelerates training at the same time. learning, allowing users to get the most out of their GPUs.
— Alvaro Toledo, vice president and general manager, Data Center Storage, Micron
The Micron 9400 SSD delivers 1.6 million IOPS with “100% 4K random reads” to provide better utilization of GPUs in the model education process used in machine learning. Most SSDs are created to read and write data to a system or server. The Micron 9400 SSD is different because the company focuses on real-world, large-scale applications other than artificial intelligence, such as online transaction processing, e-commerce, data caching, and databases. data that requires higher levels of performance cannot be found. in everyday situations.
Micron’s 9400 SSD has been tested in several mixed workloads to identify the performance of the new SSDs when compared to the competition. The company discovered
- for DB rocks, a storage database renowned for its high performance and used for latency and user-sensitive applications such as spam detection or viewer history storage, the 9400 has delivered performance up to 23% better and up to 34% better workload responsiveness.
- for the Aerospike database, an open-source NoSQL database optimized for flash storage, the Micron 9400 demonstrated up to 2.1x peak performance and superior responsiveness. The Aerospike database powers time-sensitive web applications such as fraud detection, recommendation engines, real-time payment processing and stock trading, which means the 9400 can deliver faster results for those urgent use cases.
- For GPUDirect NVIDIA Magnum IO Storage which enables a direct memory access data transfer path between GPU memory and storage, the Micron 9400 beat the competition by delivering 25% better performance in a dynamic system with compute-related tasks – an improvement critical for AI environments.
- for multi-tenant cloud architectures, the Micron 9400 delivers more than double the overall performance of a competitor’s performance-focused SSD and up to 62% better response time.
As the world’s most innovative organizations continue to adopt cloud- and digital-first strategies, WEKA and its partners are focused on removing barriers to data-driven innovation. High-performance, high-capacity storage like the Micron 9400 SSD provides the essential underlying technology to accelerate data access and information access time that drive significant business value.
— Liran Zvibel, Co-Founder and CEO, WEKA
Micron’s new SSD is backwards compatible with U.2 sockets and designed for U.3 sockets, with capacities between 6.4TB and 30TB. With the larger capacity, businesses can ensure that the carbon footprint is lower, thus contributing to the environmental impact.
Supermicro designs innovative servers that deliver maximum performance, configurability, and energy savings to meet growing customer demand for capacity and efficiency. The Micron 9400 SSD delivers massive storage of over 30TB on each drive while simultaneously supporting optimized workloads and faster system throughput for advanced applications.
— Wally Liaw, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, Business Development, Supermicro
Enterprises and other database systems looking for more information on the new Micron 9400 SSDs can visit the company’s official website.
News sources: Micron, Micron 9400 SSD sheet
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