32TB of ULTRA FAST NVMe SSD the Micron 9400 Pro

This is the fastest high-capacity 32TB NVMe SSD available on the market. We test the Micron 9400 Pro 30.72TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD with 17 different systems including AMD EPYC (including Genoa), Intel Xeon (including Sapphire Rapids), Arm servers and DPUs from Ampere, Marvell, and Huawei, and even an IBM Power9 system to see how the drive performs on different architectures.

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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
02:13 Micron 9400 Pro Overview
06:26 "Getting Real" About SSD Endurance
08:46 Micron 9400 Pro Performance
17:44 Key Lessons Learned
18:46 Wrap-up

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[JeffGeerling]

I need at least 32 of these. For reasons.

[kaspersergej]

Can’t wait for them to appear on eBay in 5-10 Years :) It will look good in my homelab 😊

[dkvello]

IBM's been delivering 38.4 TB NVMe FlashCore Modules for several years now and their latest version FCM 3.0 (PCIe Gen4 U.2, 2.5" format) delivers 115.2 TB Usable QLC, enterprise performance - >= 50µs.

[Southclarky]

Love seeing Tableau slides. You guys get to play with some fun toys, we appreciate you keeping us informed. Keep it up!

[TurboVisBits]

We run a 20PB Ceph cluster that is only 20 1U Supermicros with Intels 32TB QLC drives. We're at about 9 months with zero failures and none of our disk write life has left 100% remaining.

[AbhishekRamesh]

Thank you very much for covering in depth. I'm always looling forward to a new video from STH..

[jtaulen]

Oh the irony of saying "how big 32 GB is" in the intro :D We have all made that mistake tho, it happens :D

[javaman]

I have a 32GB SATA SSD drive from 2012, it was my boot drive for my desktop for a number of years, and even had the swap partition on it for a few years. In 2017 it moved over to another machine, still as boot drive with swap partition, but it's a router machine now. It still works great, the router logs get written to it.

[jnelson]

Doing an IBM LinuxOne initial spec meeting next month, they have NVMe adapters available for them as well and this would be a rather nice thing to put in there - zLinux storage has always been a bit of a pain point in our shop so this would reduce the number of drive adapters needed nicely. They still haven't made them available to traditional mainframe OS's yet but getting our Linux stuff faster is worthy on its own.

[DanielH]

We run 18 9300 7.68TB spread on three nodes with ceph - amazing.
Not so amazing: one drive failed and micron has not been able to get us a working drive back. It's now almost four weeks since RMA...

[AhmadQ.]

impressive indeed! thank you for the efforts.

[DrivingWithJake]

Dang, I've got about 75-100x 15.36tb nvme's. Glad to see quick ones like this as well can't wait to get my hands on some of these for our clients.

[UltralifeTech]

0:52 said Gigabytes. I don’t blame you! It’s HUGE!

[adamfrost]

This thing is sick, it's amazing how physically small it is.

[robster]

Hey Patrick, can you talk about the longevity of the media in these devices going forward? If I store my families picture on it, how long will they be readable? 5 years? 10 years?

[AlfaPro]

I wish these drive filter down to consumer, a 16TB using U.2 connection sounds great.

[Davethreshold]

I'm 3 mins. into this, and just hit liked and subscribed! I saw this on Newegg, looked it up, and it looks like you just about scooped everyone.❤

[ewitte]

Thought I was nuts getting a u.2 7.68TB PM9A3 for my desktop.

[sayanchx]

Wish you had done some benchmarks against Optane !

[PatrikKron]

I have a second hand budget ssd (with tlc) that have 4 times the rated TBW endurance and still working fine.