Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/s (tomshardware.com) 30
Micron has begun mass production of the 9650 series, the industry's first PCIe 6.0 SSD, capable of sequential read speeds up to 28 GB/s and random read performance of 5.5 million IOPS -- roughly double the throughput of the fastest PCIe 5.0 drives available today.
The drive targets AI and data center workloads and ships in E1.S and E3.S form factors across two variants: the Pro, available in capacities up to 30.72 TB, and the endurance-oriented Max, topping out at 25.6 TB. Both variants share the same peak sequential and random speeds but diverge on mixed workloads and endurance ratings -- the Max 25.6 TB carries a random endurance rating of 140,160 TBW compared to 56,064 TBW on the Pro 30.72 TB.
Power draw holds at 25 watts, unchanged from high-end PCIe 5.0 enterprise SSDs, though the 9650 is Micron's first drive to support liquid cooling alongside air. Consumer platforms are not expected to adopt PCIe 6.0 until 2030.
The drive targets AI and data center workloads and ships in E1.S and E3.S form factors across two variants: the Pro, available in capacities up to 30.72 TB, and the endurance-oriented Max, topping out at 25.6 TB. Both variants share the same peak sequential and random speeds but diverge on mixed workloads and endurance ratings -- the Max 25.6 TB carries a random endurance rating of 140,160 TBW compared to 56,064 TBW on the Pro 30.72 TB.
Power draw holds at 25 watts, unchanged from high-end PCIe 5.0 enterprise SSDs, though the 9650 is Micron's first drive to support liquid cooling alongside air. Consumer platforms are not expected to adopt PCIe 6.0 until 2030.
Sure, but... (Score:3)
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No, because data centres have already purchased the entire supply. Check back in 5 years.
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Not for us (Score:2)
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Which AI company is getting these drives? The one that tells people to walk to the car wash to get your car cleaned, or the one that makes blatant ripoffs of Marvel movies?
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However, the complexity of PCIe 6.0 implementation has slowed down its adoption by both enterprise and client applications.
Costs and the lack of interoperability tests by PCI-SIG (for now) are among the significant reasons behind not adopting the PCIe 6.0 interface for the client PC market.
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Meh (Score:4, Insightful)
28GB/s under conditions that will never be met for more than a few seconds at a time given most enterprise workloads isn't nearly as interesting as getting 200k IOPS+ sustained random reads for arbitrary lengths of time, and that's something that's theoretically possible even on PCIe gen 3, albeit not on any drives that currently exist.
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given most enterprise workloads
This isn't "for most enterprise workloads".
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> 28GB/s under conditions that will never be met for more than a few seconds at a time given most enterprise workloads
640KB ought to be enough for everyone!
The Jevons Paradox, proposed by economist William Stanley Jevons in 1865, states that technological improvements increasing resource efficiency often raise total consumption rather than lowering it.
In 1999, when I was looking for an apartment, a large complex had a big banner on their office, advertising a T-1 line (~ 1.5Mbps), shared between all tena
Re: Meh (Score:2)
25 watts? (Score:2)
That's three watts more than a 3.5 inch Maxtor hard drive from 2005 sitting in my junk box. I have a terabyte seagate that draws half that. I thought SSDs were supposed to save power. I'll blame it on the need for speed.
Re: 25 watts? (Score:2)
Yes, pcie5 ssds are already cooling problems and a lot of that is the bus itself.
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Just great I have some 5.0 slots free and not a single 5.0 card.
PCIe 5.0x16 can handle about 64GB... more than enough to support a lowly 28GB/s but no.. you had to go with 6.0x4 instead of 5.0x8 fine... don't take my money... I really was going to buy one... honest ... not anymore. Elitist bastards... Oh and say hi to your AI girlfriend for me, last time I saw her she ignored ALL of her previous instructions.
The bumps for bonding the controller chip to the PCIe bus take significant silicon area, worth hundreds of logic transistors. The (analog) transistors driving the PCIe pins take silicon area worth hundreds of logic transistors.
Minimizing the ammount of pins dedicated to buses, be it memory in VideoCards or CPUs, or PCIe in expansion cards drives massive savings in chip production.
That's why consumers get 2 channel (4 dimm 128 Bit) memory, while servers get 4 channel (8 Dimm 256bit) Buses. That's why nVIDIA
5.5 Million IOPS! (Score:2)
Two Questions (Score:2)
How much will a 30TB PCIe 6 NVMe drive cost me?
When will I be able to get one? Especially considering all the chatter about memory chip shortages and spiraling storage prices.
It'll cost me about $7k for 30TB of PCIe 4 storage, today.
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Check back in five or six years. I'm kind of serious. I just pulled my oldest 7.6TB u.2s at the end of a three year service term, drives I thought were unimaginably huge when I deployed them. When I checked them, I found that they had around 70% estimated wear life remaining, which seems pretty good for drives that were in use constantly for so long. The replacement drives were 15TB each, and I expect that in another three years, I'll be ready to fork over for the 30TB ones.
I'm thinking this is pretty typi
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until AI bubble pops, you will not be able to buy one unless your name is John Hyperscaler and ask for at least a thousand at the same time and even then a single one will cost you, my guess, at least 10k USD.
The worst of it all is that this is a run just to guarantee supply in case the manufacturers cannot meet demand, the "quote 10, to order 5 to receive 2" that we saw during the pandemic, and because the manufacturers know this is the case, they are making zero effort to expand the production capacity be
Who cares? (Score:1)
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Consumers will never be able to get any of these...they'll all go to the fucking AI shit companies.
Read TFS. These PCIe 6 SSDs were never designed for consumers. More so, ever since PCIe 6 Spec was Released in 2022~2023, the PCI-SIG knew that it would be datacenter only ontil the latests part of the decade... And clearly communicated that.
No, you can't have one (Score:2)
But Microsoft will happily rent you a CoPilot service that does. All hail the cloud slop!
*FIRST* PCIE Gen 6 device? (Score:2)
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And no consumer mother boards until 2030? The spec was finalised in 2021! Gen *7* finalised almost a year ago. If I were still with Teledyne, I would be working on a Gen 8 analyser that would almost likely ship in early 2027, maybe even this year. It looks consumer motherboards are going to be four PCIe versions behind when they finally ship with Gen6.
At around PCIe5, the speeds were so big, that Datacenter came first, consumer came (much) latter, and that gulf will only widen. Think of the datacenter as paying the early adoper tax for these technologies.
And by the way, When they released the PCIe 6 spec all those years ago, the PCIe-SIG knew full well that consumer boards with PCIe6 would come at the end of the decade. The president of the PCIe Sig said as much in interviews at the time.
and the Price? (Score:2)
good to know (Score:2)
I'll be sure to keep this in mind next time I build a data center.