Micron 7450 SSD Series With NVMe 176-Layer NAND From 400GB to 15.36TB Data Center SSD

Micron Technology, Inc. is sampling the world’s first vertically-integrated 176-layer NAND SSD for the data center.

The company’s 7450 SSD with NVMe delivers quality-of-service (QoS) latency at or below 2ms ⁽¹⁾a wide capacity range and the broadest set of form factors available to meet the needs of data center workloads.

This data center SSD includes firm’s NAND, which contains 176 layers of storage cells and CMOS-under-the-array technology, to deliver an efficient design. Integrated with the company’s own DRAM, internally developed SoC and associated firmware, this vertically integrated SSD enables the company to respond to customer needs in the market and support strengthened device security.

“We’re launching the Micron 7450 SSD at the same time PCIe Gen4 is becoming the most widely adopted SSD interface in servers,” said Jeremy Werner, corporate VP and GM, storage business unit. “This product delivers the world’s most advanced NAND in a data center SSD well ahead of the industry and, importantly, brings consistent, reliable latencies below 2ms, critical to enabling QoS in scale-out data center workloads.“

Reduced latency
The 7450 SSD achieves latency at or below 2ms for 99.9999% QoS in common, mixed, random workloads1- driving up performance in databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, RocksDB, Cassandra and Aerospike, among others. Compared to SATA SSDs, latency is reduced by nearly 50%, and read bandwidth is improved by up to twelve times. ⁽²⁾

Diverse mix of capacities and form factors
The 7450 SSD features multiple capacity options to fit data center needs. Its capacity range – from 400GB to 15.36TB – includes a capacity of 8TB in a compact E1.S form factor. In addition, the set of form factors for data center SSDs addresses the challenges of data center workloads.

U.3, M.2 and E1.S form factor options meet evolving space, power and thermal needs.
Industry’s only PCIe Gen4 U.3 SSD, in both 15 and 7mm thicknesses, provides flexibility for platforms that require 2.5-inch NVMe drives.⁽³⁾
PCIe Gen4 M.2 22x80mm SSD, designed primarily for server boot use, is a compact form factor supporting power loss protection.⁽³⁾

Security to safeguard data center
Organizations using high encryption standards for data at rest and in motion had an average data breach cost that was 29.4% less last year than a breach occurring at organizations using low or no standard encryption. ⁽⁴⁾ The firm’s SSDs offer self-encrypting drive functionality and Microsoft eDrive options that help safeguard vs. data breaches and tailor security to specific data protection requirements. The company’s Secure Execution Environment (SEE) offers more data protection by providing dedicated security processing hardware with physical isolation. SEE improves the safety of data at rest by using dedicated memory, secure code and a security processing engine.

Support for Open Compute Project
The 7450 SSD also supports Open Compute Project (OCP) deployments for qualified environments. ⁽⁵⁾ OCP specs have built a thriving ecosystem and created a standardized approach that helps reduce integration complexity and speeds time to market.

Collaboration with industry leaders
The 7450 SSD has been well received by a set of customers and is currently being qualified at hyperscalers, data center customers and major OEMs. It will be available for customers to purchase through distribution in April.

“Meta is enabling innovation through OCP with industry leaders to enable the next gen of cloud evolution,” said Ross Stenfort, hardware systems engineer, Meta (Facebook). “The Micron 7450 unleashes this innovation with support for the OCP NVMe Cloud SSD spec and E1.S with 8TB in a compact form factor. These specs enable improved thermals, performance and simplified management at scale.“

“As we scale performance to address data-centric workload requirements, delivering balanced platform capability across compute, memory and storage is critical,” said Jim Pappas, director, technology initiatives, Intel Corp. “Micron’s introduction of its PCIe Gen4-enabled 7450 SSD is a terrific example of industry innovation required for platform advancement.“

“It is imperative to drive greater storage performance for today’s latency-sensitive data centers, and AMD EPYC processors stay ahead of this customer demand with high, per-processor core counts,” said Raghu Nambiar, corporate VP, datacenter ecosystems and solutions, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.). “Our engineering collaboration with Micron to optimize the performance of our EPYC processors with Micron 7450 SSDs, and its quality-of-service latency, will enable highly responsive and predictable workloads in the datacenter and workload-tailored-solutions for our customers.“

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⁽¹⁾ Micron internal testing shows 2ms or below latency in 6×9 QoS latency below QD 32 for the Micron 7450 SSD at 15.36TB, which aligns to common data center workload queue depth for a variety of applications.
⁽²⁾ Datasheet comparisons with reference Micron SATA SSD for read and latency performance.
⁽³⁾ Based on comparison of similar, commonly available open-market SSDs.
⁽⁴⁾ 2021 Cost of a Data Breach Report, available at IBM Security Services.
⁽⁵⁾ The 7450 SSD complies with most, but not ll, requirements of the Open Compute Project NVMe Cloud SSD spec 1.0a.