Balancing the multitude of factors, a storage architect must consider when designing a system whether it be performance, power or endurance, a difficult task. With the Micron 6500 ION, customers now have a storage solution that has 20% lower active power, 56% better power efficiency and up to 10x more random write endurance than the QLC competition. combined with industry-leading density of 30.72TB in a 2.5” U.2/U.3 form factor, you have a solution that reduces the number of racks, significantly lowering your infrastructure costs, which is a cornerstone of long-term sustainability.

Just a few years ago, multi-terabyte SSDs and petabyte-level deployments were the exception, not the norm. Today, customers are demanding, and applications are requiring, an ever-increasing level of storage capacity without sacrificing performance. The Micron 6500 ION represents a leap forward in that respect by offering a 30.72TB capacity, which maximizes server density while maintaining excellent PCIe® Gen4 performance. The Micron 6500 ION delivers 6.8GB/s sequential reads and 1 million read IOPS, while delivering 53% better read quality-of-service than the QLC competition. The Micron 6500 ION has standout write performance as well, with random writes 25x faster than the QLC competition.