Some key takeaways:
1. After years of work and anticipation, massive NVMe adoption in datacenters is finally here. Use cases fall into three broad categories: Boot devices, hot data with very fast I/O, and warm to cold data with more moderate I/O demands. Different drive types will be needed for different uses.
2. Migration to PCI Express Gen 4 has reached a key inflection point and will soon dominate datacenter compute infrastructures. Even as Gen 5 adoption commences in certain applications, Gen 4 will retain the best price-to-performance ratio for years to come.
3. Latency remains a critical concern in datacenters where the slowest I/O cycles determine an application’s end performance. Micron’s new 7450 SSD, based on industry-leading, 176-level TLC NAND, specifically targets these latency needs. For example, in mixed 70/30 workloads, the 7450 SSD sustains sub-2ms latency for 99.9999% of the time, making single operations above this bar literally a one-in-a-million event