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Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

Kioxia’s LC9 high-capacity QLC SSD has been used by Dell to populate a 10 TB, all-flash, storage server just 2 RU in height. Dell is already using Kioxia’s LC9 in its PowerEdge servers. It’s now putting 40 LC9 E3.L form factor 245.76 TB NVMe SSDs in its AMD EPYC 9005-powered PowerEdge R7725xd server to produce a 9.8 PB capacity box. The system supports up to 5x 400 Gbps NICs so it can ship data out quickly. Arun Narayanan, SVP Compute and Networking at Dell, said: “The Dell PowerEdge R7725xd combined with Kioxia's high-capacity enterprise SSDs delivers the storage density and power efficiency our customers need to scale AI infrastructure without sacrificing performance." There could be 196 PB in a rack fitted with twenty of these severs. Neville Ichhaporia, SVP and GM of the SSD business unit at Kioxia America, said that, with these servers, “customers can deploy massive ingestion streams, scale data lakes effortlessly, and handle large backups in a fraction of the footprint, improving TCO to new levels.”  Other developers of 256 TB-class SSDs include Micron ( 6600 ION ), Sandisk ( UltraQLC SN670 ), SK Hynix ( AIN D ) and its Solidigm subsidiary. Scality tells us it’s working on supporting a future nearline-class SSD from Samsung, viewed as an HDD killer, with similar or even larger capacity and a roadmap out to a 1 PB drive.