Podcast #155: Micron’s 245TB SSD and What Extreme Density Enables at Scale
Brian hosted Bill Bollengier, Senior Director of Product Management at Micron, for a live podcast on LinkedIn on October 15, with Bill calling in from the floor of the OCP Global Summit. The subject was the Micron 6600 ION 245TB SSD and what a quarter petabyte per drive bay does to floor space, power budgets, rack density, form factors, and the warm tier hard drives have held for decades. We reviewed the drive in June and followed it with a Micron exabyte study in September that found the flash footprint collapses from 22 racks of hard drives to 6, freeing the 120kW that runs a GB200 NVL72…
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