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Why Micron for data centre?

Last updated 26 August 2025
In a digital landscape where data creation increases daily, the ability to quickly create and access data — and transform it into valuable insight — is crucial for thriving businesses. Building a fast and reliable data centre does more than just ensure success in the present; it’s a vital investment in the growth of your business.
Data centre technology engineered for growth
When you need your data centre to provide a true competitive advantage, Micron delivers. With an industry-leading data centre portfolio backed by 45 years of innovation and execution, Micron has a full range of memory and storage solutions to fit your unique business needs. Micron solutions are engineered with industry concerns in mind. They did the troubleshooting for you: their server memory and storage works to provide a solid bedrock for increasing workload complexity and torrents of data. For the demands of critical workloads (like AI), this foundation is not just ideal but necessary. From server DRAM to data centre SSDs, Micron’s portfolio delivers tomorrow’s innovations today, so you can keep your business creating and growing.
Their data centre solutions:
- Purpose-built workload solutions for every business
- Experienced tech support at your fingertips
- Solid foundations to tame increasing workload complexity
- A portfolio designed by industry professionals
Future-proof DRAM solutions
Bring the best balance of speed, bandwidth and value to your infrastructure. Micron’s Server DRAM solutions are rigorously tested for a wide range of applications, so you know they’ll hold up no matter your operation. Whether you’re extending the value of legacy server platforms or accelerating critical workloads on next-gen platforms, Micron® Server DRAM delivers versatility with the optimal mix of performance and cost effectiveness.
DDR5 server DRAM
Access more memory at higher speeds with Micron DDR5 Server DRAM. It delivers up to 2x the bandwidth of DDR4, and 5x the performance for deep learning. DDR5 performance is required to feed the continued growth of CPU cores in the data centre for AI, HPC and enterprise workloads. DDR5 is the best fit for businesses with intensive AI workloads.
- Reverse the trend of decreased bandwidth per core
- Maximise performance for compute intensive applications
- Protect your data with on-die ECC
Find your SSD
Made for the big demands of challenging data centre workloads, Micron SSDs deliver high performance with high reliability. Micron designs data centre SSDs for the long haul, with superior data protection and optimal endurance, addressing the growing demands of data centre workloads and the stringent requirements of industrial applications.
High-performance 9550 NVMe SSDs
Built to manage critical workloads requiring extreme speed, scalability, and power efficiency such as AI, performance-focused databases, caching, online transaction processing (OLTP) and high-frequency trading. The Micron 9550 SSD enables these workloads and more for flexible deployment in cloud, data center, OEM and system integrator designs. With available storage capacities reaching up to 30.72TB, the Micron 9550 SSD helps ensure optimal storage density.
- Boasts best-in-class performance, achieving 14.0 GB/s sequential reads and 10.0 GB/s sequential writes
- The Micron 9550 integrates Micron-designed controller ASIC, NAND, DRAM and firmware
- It supports NVMe 2.0 and OCP 2.0, with OCP 2.5 for telemetry data logging
High-capacity 6550 ION NVMe SSDs
The Micron 6550 ION SSD is the world’s first 60TB PCIe Gen5 data center SSD, built to deliver unparalleled performance, energy efficiency and density. It’s ideal for meeting the increasing demands of AI workloads in AI data lakes, high-performance computing (HPC), big data and analytics environments.?
- The world’s first 60TB E3.S SSD, the Micron 6550 ION SSD offers industry-leading space efficiency, enabling over 1.2 petabytes of storage per 1U system
- Delivers up to 226% higher sequential read bandwidth per watt and up to 338% higher sequential write bandwidth per watt
- Can write 61.44TB in 2.4 hours
Mainstream 7500 NVMe SSDs
The Micron 7500 SSD is the world’s first mainstream data center SSD with 200+ layer NAND. Micron’s industry-first 232-layer NAND enables class-leading performance and higher power efficiency. It delivers best in class 6x9s QoS, with low and consistent sub-1 millisecond latency to enable rapid, reliable responsiveness for demanding data center workloads.
- Micron 232-layer NAND enables increased performance and includes a 6-plane architecture with independent wordline read (iWL)
- Sub-1 millisecond latency for 6x9s QoS
- Superior performance for workloads, such as AI, databases, content delivery, real-time analytics, social media platforms, cloud computing and virtualisation
Mainstream 5400 SATA SSDs
Micron’s proven data centre architecture helps you get more from your SATA platforms with SSDs that have 50% better reliability (mean time to failure rating) and up to 50% greater endurance than the other leading SATA SSDs.
- Best-in-class mixed-use write speed performance
- Can extend the life of existing servers
- Performance can saturate typical network bandwidth, event at 240 GB
Find your ideal data centre SSD or DRAM solution
Simms are here to help your business moving and growing through Micron's solutions. With data centre solutions engineered to solve problems and address industry challenges, Micron deliver the most effective products with the best value in their class.
To find the right data centre solution for your business, speak to Simms today.