- Micron PCIE 6.x SSD Prototype crushes speed registrations with 27 GB/s readings
- Designcon 2025 shows PCIE 6.x but use in the real world is years away
- Gpudirect storage accelerates PCIE 6.x SSDs for requirements for next generational requirements
Micron has revealed a new PCI 6.x SSD prototype with a sequential reading speed of 27 GB/s.
Per Asteralabs, making it the fastest SSD using PCIE 6.xi world, which surpasses Micron’s former PCI 6.x SSD, which was introduced last year and achieved speeds over 26 GB/s.
Developed on DesignCon 2025, Micron PCIE 6.x SSD was paired with Astera Labs’ Scorpio P-Series fabric contact that reached a data transfer rate almost twice as fast as the fastest PCIE 5.0 SSDs available today.
Breaking Speed Records with PCIE 6.x
Scorpio P-Series Switch, introduced by the end of 2024, played a key role in enabling this record-breaking performance. With 64 PCIE 6.x-lanes and a four-port architecture, it provided the high-speed joint traffic needed for seamless data flow between storage, processors and GPUs.
The demonstration used Nvidia’s Magnum IO Gpudirect storage to establish a direct data aforemention between micronSSDs and an NVIDIA H100 GPU that is bypassing the CPU for faster and more effective treatment.
This setup showed the potential of PCI 6.x technology to speed up AI tools and Sky storage workload, where the speed is critical.
With the double of the bandwidth of PCIE 5.0, PCIE delivers 6.x up to 256 GB/S two -way flow on an X16 -Course configuration, which reduces bottlenecks in AI in AI training and inferences.
Hyperscale data centers will benefit from this jump in performance, but widespread adoption depends on wider ecosystem support, including CPUs, GPUs and network interfaces that are able to fully utilize PCI 6.x capacities.
Despite the excitement of this breakthrough, the prototype is just that, and it is unlikely that consumers or business buyers will see PCIe 6.x storage solutions on the market soon.
The ecosystem is still in its early stages where manufacturers refine hardware and software to ensure compatibility and efficiency.
