Micron today announced its SSD X100, the world’s fastest 9GB/sec sequential SSD for both read and write and mixed workload with up to 2.5 million random IOPS.
Micron believes that the new device, which uses PCIe 3.0 x16, offers an impressive 8-microsecond latency that is faster than the 10-microsecond latency of Intel Optane SSDs. The SSD is also significantly faster in sequential and random performance than any other Optane device from Intel.
Intel and Micron have jointly developed the revolutionary XPoint 3D storage media that combines “DRAM-like” performance with a significantly lower price and long life (data is retained on the storage media after it is turned off). Following the first announcement in 2015, Intel developed a wide range of XPoint 3D technology devices under the Optane brand, including both storage and storage devices.
Micron SSD X100 Performance
- High-performance memory: It offers up to 2.5 million IOP operations, more than three times faster than today’s competitive SSD offerings.
- Industry’s largest bandwidth: More than 9 GB/s of reading, write and mixed bandwidth, up to three times faster than today’s comparable NAND offerings.
- Ultra-long latency – provides consistent read and write latency that is 11 times better than SSD-NAND drives.
- Application acceleration: Enables two to four times greater usability for multiple applications with the most common workloads in the data center.
- High Performance on Small Memory: Eliminates the need to overprovision memory for performance.
- Easy to Use – Because the Micron X100 SSD uses the standard NVMe interface, no software changes are required to take full advantage of the product.
Unfortunately, Micron’s X100 series is initially focused on the data center, so we won’t see a counterpart for the desktop market in the near future. We will keep you up to date.