Micron has launched three new data center SSDs, all built with Micron G9 NAND.

The portfolio of products consists of the Micron 9650, the Micron 6600 ION, and the Micron 7600.

The Micron 9650 is the world’s first PCIe Gen6 data center SSD, offering up 28Gbps of sequential read speeds, twice that provided by Micron’s Gen5 SSDs, and 14Gbps sequential write speeds.

It also achieves an improved performance per watt compared to the Gen5 – although Micron did not provide a figure – and has up to 25 percent better storage energy efficiency for random writes and up to 67 percent for random reads.

Micron says the reduced power consumption and carbon emissions of the 9650 “allows data centers to meet sustainability goals while enhancing performance,” with a liquid-cooled E1.S version available for the most advanced AI servers.

Meanwhile, the new 6600 ION SSD offering delivers “breakthrough scalability,” according to Micron, featuring up to 245Tbs in a single drive to support the consolidation of server infrastructure in hyperscale and enterprise data centers. It consumes one watt per 4.9TB, reducing storage footprint, energy, and carbon emissions by around 37 percent when compared to three 36TB HDDs offering the same capacity.

The 6600 ION also increases storage density up to 67 percent over unnamed competitive solutions and supports up to 4.42PB per 2U server, or up to 88PB per rack, delivering the highest density and power efficiency for large capacity AI workloads, Micron said.

Finally, the 7600 PCIe Gen5 SSD has been designed to support AI inference and mixed workloads, delivering “industry-best sub-one millisecond latency” on RocksDB workloads, Micron said. It also offers sequential reads of 12Gbps, with the company also claiming it outperforms “competitive mainstream SSDs” with up to 27 percent better sequential writes of 7Gbps.

“With the industry’s first PCIe Gen6 SSD, industry-leading capacities and the lowest latency mainstream SSD – all powered by our first-to-market G9 NAND – Micron is not just setting the pace; we are redefining the frontier of data center innovation,” said Jeremy Werner, SVP and GM of Micron’s core data center business unit. “This launch cements our leadership in data center SSDs and signals a new era of performance, density, and efficiency for our customers.”

Micron is already shipping the 9650 Gen6 and 7600 Gen5 SSDs to customers, with the 122TB 6600 ION available in E3.S and U.2 form factors from Q3 2026. The 245TB version of the 6600 ION SSD will be available from 2026.