Big capacity.
Bigger value.
The massive capacities and purpose-built performance of the Micron 6500 ION NVMe SSDs make cloud-storage challenges look small.
TLC performance at QLC prices
How can we compare a TLC SSD to a QLC SSD? Simple. Micron’s advancements in NAND technology (including 200+ layers) enable the Micron® 6500 ION NVMe™ SSD to be offered at a comparable price to the Solidigm D5-P5316. When cost is similar, features and results dominate choice.
The Micron 6500 ION SSD delivers breakout NoSQL database performance without breaking the budget
This technical brief uses the YCSB benchmark workloads to highlight NoSQL database performance and latency differences between the Micron 6500 ION SSD (a TLC SSD) and the Solidigm D5-P5316 (a QLC, capacity-focused SSD). Both tested SSDs have 30.72TB capacity.
The 6500 ION enables better Ceph storage performance and better resiliency than competitor’s QLC SSD
The 30.72TB Micron 6500 ION SSD test results in our tech brief show meaningful performance improvements in all tested workloads and a marked improvement in cluster durability compared to the 30.72TB Solidigm D5-P5316 SSD.
Weka clusters with Micron high capacity, mainstream, or performance NVMe SSDs deliver major benefits
This document helps you choose the right server configuration for specific use cases and highlights Micron test results for three types of SSDs across nine different data center workloads in a multi-node, WekaFS cluster.
Micron® 6500 ION
NVMe SSD
Key benefits
- Class-leading data center performance of up to 2.3x in real-world, mixed workload applications1
- 6x9s read latency leads the industry by as much as 3.2x2
- Capacities from 6.4TB up to a class-leading 30.72TB3
Best for
- Optimized for cloud storage and content delivery networks that are in constant need of bigger, faster SSDs
- Applications range from file sharing and collaboration to application hosting, data archiving or content delivery
- Anywhere that value, performance and capacity intersect, the Micron 6500 ION excels
Features
- Power loss protection
- Enterprise data path protection
- TCG Opal v2.01
- FIPS 140-3 L2
- TAA compliant
- NVMe™ 2.0
- NVMe Management Interface (NVMe-MI™) over SMBus
- NVMe™ power states
- Firmware activated without reset
- Secure firmware download
- Hardware root of trust, secure signed firmware
- Self-monitoring and reporting technology (SMART)
- 5-year limited warranty4
Specs
- Massive 30TB capacity in a U.2/U.3 form factor1
- Up to 6.8GB/s and 1 million IOPS1
- 25x better 4KB random write IOPS2
- 10x more 4KB random write endurance2
- 56% better power efficiency2
- Extensive security features such as FIPS 140-3, TCG-Opal and TAA compliance
- Built on Micron’s world-leading 232-layer NAND3
Product overview
Building the perfect cloud architecture or content delivery network has traditionally been a balancing act where IT teams are forced to sacrifice cloud storage performance for capacity or pay for speeds and endurance that will never be used. The high-capacity, 30.72TB1 Micron® 6500 ION NVMe SSD solves these challenges, delivering TLC performance at QLC price points — all while achieving up to 25 times more 4KB random write IOPS, up to 54% better read QoS, and up to 56% better power efficiency than the competition2. The Micron 6500 ION’s massive capacities and purpose-built performance make the competition look small by comparison.
Big capacities make cloud storage
challenges look small
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 30.72TB1 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 competition2. The Micron 6500 ION has standout write performance as well, with random writes 25x faster than the QLC competition2.
Sustainability in the data center
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 competition2. Combined with industry-leading density of 30.72TB1 in a 2.5-inch 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.
Purpose-built portfolio
The IT world is full of “industry leaders,” but how do they really stack up against Micron? We were the first to introduce 232-layer NAND3 to our comprehensive, purpose-built storage solutions portfolio — the very NAND inside our high-capacity Micron 6500 ION SSD. That’s a lot of layers of storage, but what does it mean for your customers? It means denser, more power-efficient TLC storage at QLC price points. Partner with Micron to be the first to offer your customers high-capacity NVMe® storage — and a purpose-built storage portfolio — that stacks up against competitors.
Key specifications
| U.3 | Micron 6500 ION Capacity-focused (<1 DWPD) |
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| Capacity1 | 30,720GB | |||||
| Sequential5 (128K sequential transfer) |
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| Reads (MB/s) | 6,800 | |||||
| Writes (MB/s) | 5,000 | |||||
| Random5 (4K transfer) |
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| Random Reads (KIOPS) | 1000 | |||||
| Random Writes (KIOPS) | 200 | |||||
| 70/30 Read/Write (KIOPS) | 400 | |||||
| Latency6 | ||||||
| READ (TYP, µs) - | 70 | |||||
| WRITE (TYP, µs) | 15 | |||||
| READ (99%, µs) | 80 | |||||
| WRITE (99%, µs) | 65 | |||||
| Endurance (total bytes written in TB) |
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| 4K Random | 16,800 |
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| 128K Seq | 56,000 |
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| Basic Attributes | ||||||
| Interface | PCIe Gen4 1x4 NVMe (1.4) | |||||
| NAND | Micron 232-Layer 3D TLC NAND |
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| MTTF | 2.5 million device hours |
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| Advanced Features | TCG-Opal 2.01, OCP 2.0, TAA compliance, FIPS 140-3, power loss protection (data at-rest & in-flight), enterprise data path protection (user & meta data), Storage Executive, 5-year warranty |
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- 30.72TB capacity is the largest option. User capacity: 1GB = 1 billion bytes; formatted capacity is less
- All comparisons to public datasheet values for 30.72TB Solidigm® D5-P5316 QLC SSD as of March 2023
- Additional information available here: www.micron.com/232
- Warranty valid for 5 years from the original date of purchase or before writing the maximum total bytes written (TBW) as published in the product datasheet and as measured in the product’s SMART data, whichever comes first.
- Performance measured under the following conditions: Steady-state as defined by SNIA Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification Enterprise v1.1; Drive write cache enabled; NVMe power state 0; Sequential workloads measured using FIO with a 128K IO size and a queue depth of 32; Random read workloads measured using FIO with a 4K IO size and queue depth of 256; Random write workloads measured using FIO with a 4K IO size and a queue depth of 128.
- Latency values measured with random workloads using FIO, 4KB transfers, queue depth = 1; Typical latency = median, 50th percentile