News Micron unveils industry's first 60TB SSD with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface

[Admin]

Micron's 6550 ION SSD boasts extreme capacity and extreme performance.

Micron unveils industry's first 60TB SSD with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface : Read more

 

[Jame5]

The new drive delivers read and write speeds of 12GB/s

They most definitely do NOT.

Even Micron's own marketing material for the press announcement shows 12GB/s reads, 5GB/s writes.

 

[bit_user]

I think it drives home the point of just how unnecessary PCIe 5.0 is for consumer SSDs that datacenter drives have been lagging in this area.

 

[bit_user]

BTW, a key feature of this drive is the use of TLC NAND. This sets it apart from prior 60 TB-class drives we've seen from Solidigm and Samsung.

Correspondingly, it provides 1 DWPD endurance, if writing at 16 kB blocks or larger.

I found it interesting the main specs slide also states 3 months power-off data retention @ 40 C. I think this 3 months figure is sort of standard, or at least it's what I've seen with other drives. Probably (hopefully), the actual figure is still longer than that.

 

[Jame5]

SSDs have never been a good solution for offline data storage. They lose integrity in less than a year without power.

 

[bit_user]

SSDs have never been a good solution for offline data storage. They lose integrity in less than a year without power.

A lot of people don't necessarily know that, especially with external SSDs now starting to displace external HDD products, for which backups is a key use case.

I worry about what happens when this window starts getting really short. Like, what happens if there's a natural disaster, and machines can't be powered up for at least 30 days? If the offline retention time keeps going down, at some point, that could lead to mass data loss.

Or, maybe we're talking about a PC someone doesn't use every day. At some point, they go longer than usual without using it. Maybe like on a trip, which ends up taking a few weeks longer than expected.

 

[Firestone]

Thanks I will take two please

 

[gg83]

I see Wendel from L1tech filling a rack with these soon.

 

[Amdlova]

Very happy with the enterprise ssd. Not fast as optane. But not to slower when try to destroy it with multiple demands.

@bit_user data retention still a big issue... in cold places I think will loose data faster than hot ones.

 

[thullet]

consuming 209% less power than its counterparts

It's so efficient it generates more power than competitors consume!

 

[bit_user]

@bit_user data retention still a big issue... in cold places I think will loose data faster than hot ones.

From what I've seen, the best retention is achieved by writing it hot, but then storing it cold.