- 6600 ION delivers up to 88pb per Rack, and at 122 TB scales micron SSDs far beyond typical limits
- With 36 SSDs in 2U enable Micron 4.42PB in a compact server configuration
- Micron Projects Daily Energy Savings equivalent to operating 124 US homes with 2EB installations
Micron has announced a larger extension of his storage lineup with a new item in the high capacity SSD room, 6600 ion.
The company says this PCIe Gen5-based SSD is now available in a 122TB configuration and is expected to scale up to 245 TB at the beginning of 2026.
The company places its new model as a direct challenge to hard disk drives in hyperscale and company data centers with the aim of offering greater efficiency in terms of power consumption, physical space and storage density.
Harddisaltive to data -heavy environments
6600 Ion is part of a wider portfolio that also includes 9650 PCIe Gen6 and 7600 SSD for low-latency tasks.
All three products are built on Micron’s G9 Nand, which the company claims enables significant performance and capacity gains.
“With the industry’s first PCIE GEN6 SSD, industry-leading capabilities and the lowest latency Mainstream SSD-Alt together driven by our first-to-market G9 Nand-Micron is not only to set the pace; we redefine the limit of data center innovation,” said Jeremy Werner, senior vice president and General Manager for Micron’s Core data center Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit
Micron claims that 6600 ion can deliver up to 88pb per day. Rack, which is huge considering that many of its rivals are still less than 40 pb per day. Rack.
With support for up to 36 E3.S SSDS on a 2U server, the design enables the design up to 4.42pb per Server.
“With Supermicro’s widest selection of petascale storage -optimized servers that support up to 36 E3.’s SSDs, Micron 6600 -ion enables up to 4.42pb per 2U server that delivers the highest density and power efficiency for large capacity -i -work loads,” Network Security on Supermicro.
6600 Ion reportedly provides an improvement of 67% density compared to previous alternatives.
Micron suggests that this may become the largest SSD accessible commercial, allowing data centers to store exabytes of information with improved energy efficiency.
However, its role in actually replacing hard drives depends on prolonged endurance, cost per Terabyte economics and compatibility across platforms.
That said, 6600 Ion allegedly only uses 1 watts per day. 4.9 TB, a number that undermines the power of traditional HDD -ARRAYS.
Micron projects that installations that are scaled to 2 exabytes can result in daily energy savings similar to running 124 US homes.
These allegations point to significant operational savings, but large -scale insertion depends on more than just stream metrics.
As Micron Eyes Leadership in the fastest SSD and largest SSD categories, the actual shift from HDDs will rely on sustained benefit under pressure and meaningful cost benefits everywhere.
