Micron 6600 ION 245TB SSD Review: A Quarter Petabyte Per Drive Bay by Brian Beeler on June 2, 2026 Enterprise ◇ SSD Micron’s 6600 ION NVMe SSD has reached 245.76TB, pushing the company’s capacity-focused PCIe Gen5 QLC line into quarter-petabyte territory. …
… While they do not all compete directly in deployment scenarios, they overlap enough in capacity and market focus to provide useful context around where the DapuStor R6060 122.88TB fits within the current high-capacity enterprise SSD landscape. …
… While the RAID6 HDD array in the R5715 delivered respectable sequential throughput for a high-capacity spinning-disk platform, the SSD-equipped R4715 operated in a completely different performance class, particularly in random workloads, where SMB environments tend to feel storage latency most. …
… Starting at $269.99 for 8TB, the pricing is competitive with other high-capacity external HDDs and considerably less than that of equivalent external SSDs. …
Kioxia CD9P-R Review: Read-Intensive Gen5 Up to 61.44TB by Brian Beeler on June 18, 2026 Enterprise ◇ SSD The Kioxia CD9P-R is the read-intensive arm of the company’s new data center NVMe SSD generation, and the first CD-series drive built on BiCS FLASH generation 8 TLC. …
… It slots between the complexity of a NAS and the cost of high-capacity SSDs, working well as a companion to a smaller internal NVMe or as a bulk offload destination for photos, video, and project files. …
… Supported tiers include NVMe SSDs with TLC and QLC flash, HDDs, tape, and cloud-based cold storage. …
… Administrators can manually place data on SSD or HDD storage tiers depending on workload requirements, allowing performance-sensitive data and capacity-oriented storage to be managed separately. …
… They differ in CPU socket count, DRAM capacity, drive count, and inter-node bandwidth. …
… The lower score compared to some other Seagate drives likely reflects the trade-offs that come with pushing capacity higher, though the drive still maintained a solid position among the broader group of large-capacity disks. …