Micron 6500 ION SSD

The Micron® 6500 ION’s massive capacities and purpose-built performance tame even the largest, densest and most demanding cloud storage and content delivery systems.

The Micron 6500 ION SSD redefines scalable storage and is ideal for maximizing IT budgets that can’t keep up with end user data growth, increasing performance expectations, and growing environmental concerns. The Micron 6500 ION addresses all these problems head-on with best-in-class performance that promotes sustainability and eclipses the QLC SSD with superior value.

The Micron 6500 ION SSD helps reduce upfront purchase costs,2 operating expenses by reducing power/cooling, and server/software license costs through chassis consolidation.3 Its 30.72TB capacity and dense form factors will facilitate opportunities to lower your carbon footprint through the consolidation of more storage in fewer servers — all while outperforming and outlasting the competitor’s QLC SSD.

For data centers that need to affordably scale storage, the Micron 6500 ION is the answer.

Key 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 warranty

Benefits

• Massive 30TB capacity in a U.2/U.3 form factor
• Up to 6.8GB/s and 1 million IOPS
• 25x better 4KB random write IOPS
• 10x more 4KB random write endurance
• 56% better power efficiency
• Extensive security features such as FIPS 140-3, TCG-Opal and TAA compliance
• Built on Micron’s world-leading 232-layer NAND