The Micron 9550 high-performance SSD is a game-changer for AI workloads. Using our battle-tested Micron G8 NAND, leading-edge controller and vertical integration of all key components in the SSD, we’ve built a drive that is best in class for performance AND uses less power.
My team tested the Micron 9550 U.2 7.68TB drive in four cutting-edge AI workloads. Our results prove that the Micron 9550 is the best data center SSD for AI systems.
In all tested workloads, the Micron 9550 not only gets the work done faster, but it also uses less average power, meaning large savings in SSD energy used (workload time x average power). Let’s look at each of these workloads in more detail.
Big accelerator Memory (BaM) and GPU-Initiated Direct Storage (GIDS) replace the NVMe driver and use high GPU thread parallelization to enhance performance on PCIe® Gen5 SSDs with the NVIDIA® H100. This workload demands the highest-performance small block input/output (IO) we’ve ever tested.
This synthetic test is like FIO (flexible IO) but initiated from the H100 GPU. Here we see the Micron 9550 hitting 3.4 million input/output operations per second (IOPs). We also graphed IOPs per watt, showing the Micron 9550 is up to two times more energy efficient than the competition.