Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/s (tomshardware.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/17/1710225/microns-pcie-60-ssd-hits-mass-production-at-28-gbs
- Source link: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/worlds-first-pcie-6-0-ssd-enters-mass-production-with-28gb-s-speeds-micron-9650-series-ssds-support-air-and-liquid-cooling
The drive targets AI and data center workloads and ships in E1.S and E3.S form factors across two variants: the Pro, available in capacities up to 30.72 TB, and the endurance-oriented Max, topping out at 25.6 TB. Both variants share the same peak sequential and random speeds but diverge on mixed workloads and endurance ratings -- the Max 25.6 TB carries a random endurance rating of 140,160 TBW compared to 56,064 TBW on the Pro 30.72 TB.
Power draw holds at 25 watts, unchanged from high-end PCIe 5.0 enterprise SSDs, though the 9650 is Micron's first drive to support liquid cooling alongside air. Consumer platforms are not expected to adopt PCIe 6.0 until 2030.
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/worlds-first-pcie-6-0-ssd-enters-mass-production-with-28gb-s-speeds-micron-9650-series-ssds-support-air-and-liquid-cooling
Not for us (Score:2)
This means nothing now. They wont make them for the consumer. They will be horded for bloated slop datacenters.
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Which AI company is getting these drives? The one that tells people to walk to the car wash to get your car cleaned, or the one that makes blatant ripoffs of Marvel movies?
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No shit? They won't make a PCI 6.0 SSD for consumers? Consumers who won't get PCI 6 motherboards until around 2030? The bastards!
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Why no consumer boards for another 4 years?
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> However, the complexity of PCIe 6.0 implementation has slowed down its adoption by both enterprise and client applications.
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> Costs and the lack of interoperability tests by PCI-SIG (for now) are among the significant reasons behind not adopting the PCIe 6.0 interface for the client PC market.
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Meh (Score:4, Insightful)
28GB/s under conditions that will never be met for more than a few seconds at a time given most enterprise workloads isn't nearly as interesting as getting 200k IOPS+ sustained random reads for arbitrary lengths of time, and that's something that's theoretically possible even on PCIe gen 3, albeit not on any drives that currently exist.
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> given most enterprise workloads
This isn't "for most enterprise workloads".
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> 28GB/s under conditions that will never be met for more than a few seconds at a time given most enterprise workloads
640KB ought to be enough for everyone!
The Jevons Paradox, proposed by economist William Stanley Jevons in 1865, states that technological improvements increasing resource efficiency often raise total consumption rather than lowering it.
In 1999, when I was looking for an apartment, a large complex had a big banner on their office, advertising a T-1 line (~ 1.5Mbps), shared between all tena
25 watts? (Score:2)
That's three watts more than a 3.5 inch Maxtor hard drive from 2005 sitting in my junk box. I have a terabyte seagate that draws half that. I thought SSDs were supposed to save power. I'll blame it on the need for speed.
5.5 Million IOPS! (Score:2)
5.5 million IOPS is impressive. The fastest server I've ever benchmarked myself was 250,000 random reads, 200,000 random writes.
Two Questions (Score:2)
How much will a 30TB PCIe 6 NVMe drive cost me?
When will I be able to get one? Especially considering all the chatter about memory chip shortages and spiraling storage prices.
It'll cost me about $7k for 30TB of PCIe 4 storage, today.
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Check back in five or six years. I'm kind of serious. I just pulled my oldest 7.6TB u.2s at the end of a three year service term, drives I thought were unimaginably huge when I deployed them. When I checked them, I found that they had around 70% estimated wear life remaining, which seems pretty good for drives that were in use constantly for so long. The replacement drives were 15TB each, and I expect that in another three years, I'll be ready to fork over for the 30TB ones.
I'm thinking this is pretty typi
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until AI bubble pops, you will not be able to buy one unless your name is John Hyperscaler and ask for at least a thousand at the same time and even then a single one will cost you, my guess, at least 10k USD.
The worst of it all is that this is a run just to guarantee supply in case the manufacturers cannot meet demand, the "quote 10, to order 5 to receive 2" that we saw during the pandemic, and because the manufacturers know this is the case, they are making zero effort to expand the production capacity be
Who cares? (Score:1)
Consumers will never be able to get any of these...they'll all go to the fucking AI shit companies.
No, you can't have one (Score:2)
But Microsoft will happily rent you a CoPilot service that does. All hail the cloud slop!
*FIRST* PCIE Gen 6 device? (Score:2)
And no consumer mother boards until 2030? The spec was finalised in 2021! Gen *7* finalised almost a year ago. If I were still with Teledyne, I would be working on a Gen 8 analyser that would almost likely ship in early 2027, maybe even this year. It looks consumer motherboards are going to be four PCIe versions behind when they finally ship with Gen6.
and the Price? (Score:2)
I need a good chuckle. But wait while I get some popcorn.
Sure, but... (Score:3)
Can it store my ENTIRE porn collection?
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> Can it store my ENTIRE porn collection?
Yesterday's. :-)