Micron 9550 MAX 6.4TB U.2 NVMe Mixed-Use SSD

The Micron 9550 MAX 6.4TB U.2 NVMe SSD (MTFDKCC6T4TGF-1BK1DABYY) is a mixed-use, high-endurance enterprise storage device built on Micron's 176-layer TLC 3D NAND and paired with the NVMe 2.0-compliant PCIe Gen 5 x4 interface. The 9550 MAX designation indicates the highest endurance tier within the 9550 family, engineered specifically for write-intensive workloads that demand sustained performance alongside exceptional drive longevity. Operating in the industry-standard 2.5-inch U.2 (SFF-8639) form factor, it integrates seamlessly into mainstream enterprise server and storage platforms without requiring bespoke infrastructure.

Performance is a defining characteristic of the 9550 MAX. Sequential read throughput reaches up to 14,000 MB/s and sequential write throughput reaches up to 10,000 MB/s, enabled by the doubled lane bandwidth of PCIe Gen 5 compared to its Gen 4 predecessors. Random 4K read IOPS are rated at up to 3,000,000 and random 4K write IOPS at up to 1,500,000, figures that position the drive for latency-sensitive, high-concurrency workloads. The mixed-use endurance rating of 3 drive writes per day (DWPD) over the rated life ensures the 6.4TB capacity can sustain aggressive write activity across multi-year production deployments.

Micron has incorporated a comprehensive suite of enterprise reliability and data-integrity features into the 9550 MAX, including end-to-end data path protection, power-loss protection circuitry, and support for multiple security standards. Thermal management is handled through active power state reporting and throttling mechanisms that preserve data integrity under sustained load. The drive supports the NVMe Command Set including NVMe-MI for out-of-band management, making it compatible with modern data center management fabrics and enabling fleet-level monitoring without interrupting I/O operations.

Ideal for

• High-frequency online transaction processing (OLTP) databases requiring sustained random write IOPS and low, consistent latency across thousands of concurrent sessions
• Real-time analytics and in-memory database persistence tiers where large sequential write streams from ingestion pipelines must not bottleneck query throughput
• AI and machine learning training infrastructure serving as fast scratch or checkpoint storage, absorbing high-bandwidth sequential writes from GPU clusters between epochs
• Virtualized server environments and VDI deployments with mixed read/write I/O profiles from hundreds of concurrent virtual machines, benefiting from the high random IOPS ceiling
• Log aggregation and time-series data platforms that generate continuous, high-volume write workloads and require the endurance headroom of a 3 DWPD mixed-use drive
• High-performance computing (HPC) parallel file system storage nodes where checkpoint-and-restart operations produce burst write loads that must complete rapidly to minimize job idle time

Technical specifications

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