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- The 6600 ION delivers up to 88PB per rack, and at 122TB, Micron is scaling SSDs far beyond typical limits
- With 36 SSDs in 2U, Micron enables 4.42PB in a compact server configuration
- Micron projects daily energy savings equivalent to powering 124 U.S. homes with 2EB installations
Micron has announced a major expansion of its storage lineup with a new entry in the high-capacity SSD space, the 6600 ION.
The company says this PCIe Gen5-based SSD is now available in a 122TB configuration and is expected to scale up to 245TB in early 2026.
The company is positioning its new model as a direct challenge to hard disk drives in hyperscale and enterprise data centers, aiming to offer greater efficiency in terms of power consumption, physical space, and storage density.
Hard drive alternative for data-heavy environmentsThe 6600 ION is part of a broader portfolio that also includes the 9650 PCIe Gen6 and the 7600 SSD for low-latency tasks.
All three products are built on Micron's G9 NAND, which the company claims enable significant performance and capacity gains.
“With the industry’s first PCIe Gen6 SSD, industry-leading capacities and the lowest latency mainstream SSD—all powered by our first-to-market G9 NAND—Micron is not just setting the pace; we are redefining the frontier of data center innovation,” said Jeremy Werner, senior vice president and general manager of Micron’s Core Data Center Business Unit
Micron claims the 6600 ION can deliver up to 88PB per rack which is huge considering that many of its rivals are still below 40PB per rack.
With support for up to 36 E3.S SSDs in a 2U server, the design enables up to 4.42PB per server.
“With Supermicro’s broadest selection of Petascale storage optimized servers supporting up to 36 E3.S SSDs, the Micron 6600 ION enables up to 4.42PB per 2U server delivering the highest density and power efficiency for large capacity AI workloads,” said Michael McNerney, senior vice president, Marketing and Network Security at Supermicro.
The 6600 ION reportedly delivers a 67% density improvement over previous alternatives.
Micron suggests this could become the largest SSD available commercially, allowing data centers to store exabytes of information with improved energy efficiency.
However, its role in actually replacing hard drives will depend on long-term endurance, cost-per-terabyte economics, and compatibility across platforms.
That said, the 6600 ION reportedly uses only 1 watt per 4.9TB, a figure that undercuts the power draw of traditional HDD arrays.
Micron projects that installations scaling to 2 exabytes could result in daily energy savings equivalent to powering 124 U.S. homes.
These claims point to significant operational savings, but large-scale deployment will depend on more than just power metrics.
As Micron eyes leadership in fastest SSD and largest SSD categories, the actual shift from HDDs will rely on sustained performance under pressure and meaningful cost advantages across the board.
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It's that time again: each of the best streaming services have a limited-time that you can watch some films, and that means every licensed movie will eventually face the final curtain – or at least, the final one until the rights are renewed and it reappears in a new catalog.
Some of this month's movie exits from HBO Max will be missed more than others – for me, it's a sad goodbye to Detective Pikachu and a 'don't let the door hit your ass on the way out' to Ted 2 – but some of this month's departures include films that are as watchable as any of the best Max movies.
I've chosen three very different movies for you to catch while you can. One's a family-friendly animation, one's a surprisingly dark 80s actioner with a Shane Black script and one is a drama featuring one of the world's biggest movie stars in front of and behind the camera. But while all three are different kinds of movie I think there's something in all of them that makes them worth watching.
Two of the movies here are also interesting because of their influences and influence: while Lethal Weapon wasn't the first buddy-cop movie it set the template for the decade and beyond, and without the clearly Hitchcock-inspired Play Misty For Me there would be no Fatal Attraction. To the movies!
Lethal WeaponMultiple Lethal Weapon movies are on their way out from Max this month, but if you're tight for time then only the first two are must-watch action flicks: after that the quality nosedives, with Lethal Weapon 3 struggling to get a 60% rating and the utterly inessential fourth movie garnering a frankly rotten 52% from the critics.
There's some argument over which of the first two Lethal Weapons are superior. Many people plump for the sequel, but for me the first movie is the best. In this film Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) isn't movie-crazy; he's crazy-crazy, Mel-Gibson-stopped-by-a-cop scary: he's going out of his mind with grief and that makes him incredibly dangerous to others and to himself. That gives the first movie a weight that the more conventional buddy sequels don't carry.
"Lethal Weapon is a film teetering on the brink of absurdity when it gets serious," Variety wrote, but "thanks to its unrelenting energy and insistent drive, it never quite falls." Reviewing the 4K re-release, Starburst said that it "stands out as the epitome of 1980s shoot-'em-ups, set in a bygone Hollywood fantasy world where cops and guns are great and an action star like Gibson flexing his pecs and martial arts skills would fill up cinemas. It’s not difficult to see why it’s considered a classic – the action is bloody fun and the buddy cop chemistry strong."
Cloudy With a Chance of MeatballsOne of the things I really love about animation is that it makes the impossible possible, and this cute kids' film – which is fun for adults too – is a great example of that: you'll believe a man can fry (sorry).
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs has a great premise and a great cast too: "Where else can you find the varied likes of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Bruce Campbell, and – yes – Mr. T together and all on their A game?" says The Movie Report. It's about an eccentric inventor (Hader) whose machine makes it rain all kinds of food, saving a struggling fishing town from its sardine-based sadness. But then the machine goes out of control with often hilarious consequences.
Reviews were mixed, and it's definitely not up there with the likes of DreamWorks' or Pixar's best. But as Empire put it, it's "no Pixar, but a lot of fun." The film is "bright, silly and a good shout to entertain the whole family."
Play Misty For MeLet's deal with the elephant in the room first: this film was made in 1971 and that means its sexual politics, its understanding of mental illness and director and lead actor Clint Eastwood's sideburns and flares have all aged terribly. But it's an effective potboiler about a late-night DJ whose one night stand with a troubled woman (Jessica Walter) turns into something sinister.
"Eastwood... has obviously seen Psycho and Repulsion more than once," TIME Magazine said, "but those are excellent texts and he has learned his lessons passing well." The Chicago Reader agreed: "Clint Eastwood wisely chose a strong, simple thriller for his first film as a director, and the project is remarkable in its self-effacing dedication to getting the craft right."
The film enabled Eastwood, by then a huge movie star, "to be unsympathetic, selfish and – in the words of the title song – as helpless as a kitten up a tree," Empire wrote, describing it as "thrilling" and giving the film four out of five stars.
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