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This year’s Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) conference was my first since joining Micron — and Jeremy Werner's Keynote underscored something clear to me: Cloud and enterprise data centers face a tough challenge. AI workloads keep expanding, but power costs can’t rise at the same pace. The Micron 7600 SSD is designed to deliver both performance and efficiency in a mainstream drive, showing that performance and energy efficiency can finally meet without compromise.
AI’s power challenge
Training and inference workloads consume extraordinary amounts of energy, which creates both operational and potential environmental costs. For cloud and enterprise providers who are competing on performance and price, managing power use is essential. And storage plays a bigger role than many realize.
In fact, in the MLPerf Storage™ benchmarks evaluations, the Micron 7600 SSD delivered up to 78% better efficiency per watt than competitive drives — clear evidence that storage choices can make a measurable impact.
The role of storage in the AI data pipeline
AI infrastructure is often described as a pipeline — ingest, transform, train and infer. Storage is essential at every stage, but the transform stage is where the Micron 7600 has the greatest influence. This is the stage when massive volumes of raw data are processed and prepared for training. Here, efficiency is as critical as speed. By improving performance per watt, the Micron 7600 helps customers accelerate data transformation without driving up energy costs.
For mid-tier cloud providers and enterprise data centers, this balance of efficiency and performance is critical. Customers need AI infrastructure that scales while also keeping energy costs in check. The Micron 7600 addresses that dual mandate. With predictable quality of service (QoS), strong performance per watt and built-in security features, it’s a storage solution that helps align business priorities with sustainability goals.
The Micron 7600 balances consistent performance with improved energy efficiency. Built on Micron G9 NAND technology, it achieves up to 12 GB/s sequential reads and 7 GB/s sequential writes while typically operating at 20W to 25W. These results translate into higher input/output operations per second (IOPS) per watt — up to twice that of some competing drives.
Sustainable AI requires components that balance throughput with efficiency. The Micron 7600 was engineered for this purpose, offering up to 675,000 random write IOPS at 25W and sub-1 millisecond latency. So customers can move faster without overspending on power — a crucial balance as workloads scale.
Real-world AI use cases
Micron engineers tested the Micron 7600 with the MLPerf Storage benchmarks across diverse workloads. These are some of the highlights from the testing:
- Up to 79% better power efficiency
- Up to 59% lower 99th-percentile latency in read-heavy workloads
- Up to 23% higher mixed read/write performance
These gains aren’t just numbers on a chart: They matter. Better efficiency lowers operating costs, lower latency improves application responsiveness, and higher throughput enables more productive AI pipelines. Together, they show how the Micron 7600 can help customers do more with less — a win for both business outcomes and sustainability goals.
At FMS 2025, Micron introduced three new SSDs designed to advance AI infrastructure across the data pipeline:
- Micron 9650 SSD — PCIe Gen6 performance leadership
- Micron 7600 SSD — QoS leadership
- Micron 6600 ION SSD — Ultrahigh capacity, with 122TB today and 245TB coming soon
These products are part of a broader vision: They reflect Micron’s commitment to helping customers run AI workloads more efficiently and responsibly, from ingest to transform to train and to infer. Each stage addresses a different challenge, but they share a common goal — enabling sustainable, scalable performance for the data center.
Micron’s leadership
Working across Micron to bring these announcements forward reinforced what matters most — delivering products with our customers’ needs at the center. And with the Micron 7600, we’ve shown that high performance and energy efficiency don’t have to be trade-offs.
Whether you manage AI infrastructure strategy, storage engineering or sustainability initiatives, you’ll find the full brief is worth reading. It connects the dots between system design choices and measurable business impact.
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