The media writes that this drive is designed to solve the “most complex” AI problems with “unprecedented performance and efficiency.” The Micron 9550 delivers sequential read speeds of up to 14.0GB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 10.0GB/s, which is 67% faster than the competition. It also has 3,300 KIOPS of random read performance and 400 KIOPS of random write performance, outperforming the competition by 35% and 33% respectively.
The Micron 9550 is designed for high-performance scenarios such as training large language models (LLMs) and graph neural networks (GNNs). It provides up to 33% faster workload execution and up to 60% faster feature collection when training GNNs.
Additionally, the SSD provides up to 34% higher throughput for NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage.
SSDs are available in capacities from 3.2TB to 30.72TB and in a variety of form factors including U.2, E1.S and E3.S.
Source: Ferra
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