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Micron 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.
6500 ION

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 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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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.

Benefits

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 30 times 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.
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Promotes a more sustainable data center​

The Micron 6500 ION 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 10 times 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.
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Eclipses QLC with superior value​

The Micron 6500 ION 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.
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4 Comparisons to the Solidigm D5-P5316 30.72TB SSD are based on public information available at the time of this document’s publication and on Micron DCWE testing. Latency refers to average read latency for 4KB 100% random read workload at queue depth (QD) of 1. Sequential write statements are based on 128KB 100% sequential write workload. Random IOPS statements based on 4KB, 100% random workloads. 58% improvement measured at QD32 and QD64. Measurements made at QDs 1 to 256 yielded a range of improvements from -7% to 58% when compared to the competitor’s drive. 62% improvement measured at QD32. Other measurements were made at QDs ranging from 1 to 256 and yielded a range of 18% to 62% improvements over the competitor’s drive. The ‘over 30 times more’ statement is for 4KB random write IOPS at QD128. The 4KB random write IOPS at QD1 is over 10 times more.

5 Comparisons to the Solidigm D5-P5316 30.72TB SSD are based on public information available at the time of this document’s publication. 20% less power based on Micron 6500 ION default 4KB, 100% random, 100% read power = 20 watts, Solidigm P5316 default power consumption for 4KB, 100% random, 100% read = 25 watts. Micron 6500 ION default 4KB, 100% random read IOPS = 1000KIOPS. 100% random read power = 20 watts. Solidigm P5316 default ION default 4KB, 100% random read IOPS = 800KIOPS and its 100% power consumption for 4KB, 100% random read = 25 watts. 1000KIOPS/20W vs. 800KIOPS/25W equates to 56% greater power efficiency for 4KB, 100% random read IOPS per watt comparison.

6 Solidigm documentation states that its endurance is rated using a 64KB 100% random write workload and is 0.41 DWPD. Rated Solidigm D5-P5316 endurance at 64KB transfer size is estimated to be 16x the rated endurance for a 4KB transfer size, yielding a 4KB value of 0.0256 (0.41/16). Micron 6500 ION rates endurance using 4KB random write workloads and is 0.3 DWPD.

7 Unformatted capacity. 1GB = 1 billion bytes, formatted capacity is less. Based on standard, 1U server that can house up to 32 x E1.L SSDs, each of which is 30.72TB (usable). 32 x 32TB = 1024TB (unformatted). 32 x 30.72TB = 983 TB (usable); Assuming standard production 42U rack with 36U available for server storage, the total server storage available from the SSDs is 36 x 32 x 32TB = 36,864 TB (unformatted) and 36 x 32 x 30.72TB = 35,389TB = 35.389PB (usable).

Featured resources

TECHNICAL BRIEF

Accelerating Ceph object stores

This technical brief describes how the Micron 6500 ION SSDs provide meaningful object storage performance improvements in multiple workloads compared to the competitor’s QLC SSD.

TECHNICAL BRIEF

Micron 6500 ION SSDs maximize WEKA scalability and performance

This technical brief demonstrates how the high-capacity Micron 6500 ION SSD can help address massive storage requirements and deliver WEKA workload results without the compromises that are typically found with the competitor’s QLC SSDs.

TECHNICAL BRIEF

Cassandra NoSQL performance with Micron 6500 ION SSD exceeds the competition

This technical brief underscores how the Micron 6500 ION SSD’s performance enables innovative NoSQL database design opportunities and performance exceeding that of 30.72TB QLC SSDs.

TECHNICAL BRIEF

Micron 6500 ION and Micron XTR SSDs boost SQL Server analytics

This technical brief confirms that the Micron XTR paired with the Micron 6500 ION SSD delivers similar SQL Server Analytics workload performance as a SCM SSD paired with the Micron 6500 ION SSD.

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  • Product Name
    6500 ION
  • Package
    U.3 (15mm)
  • Voltage
    3.3V, 12V
  • Read Performance
    6800 MB/s
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