Newshot About 157,000 TB: Kioxia and Dell create the world's first 157PB single-rack object storage solution, using 640 245.76TB SSDs
IT Home, November 12 news: On November 11 local time, Kioxia announced a collaboration with Dell Technologies to create a 157PB object storage solution within a single standard 42U rack, using Kioxia LC9 series 245.76TB solid-state drives. The two companies stated that this is the industry's first single-rack 157PB object storage solution.
The solution uses the Dell ObjectScale software-defined object storage platform, deployed on 16 PowerEdge R7725xd servers, with a total of 640 Kioxia LC9 series 245.76TB SSDs configured, providing 157PB of raw capacity.
According to the introduction, Dell ObjectScale is an enterprise-grade, cloud-scale object storage platform for unstructured data workloads, suitable for scenarios such as AI training, big data analytics, and cloud-native applications.
Kioxia stated that as AI workloads drive continued growth in unstructured data, high-capacity NVMe SSDs help store more data in a concentrated manner without proportionally increasing data center rack space, power, and cooling requirements.
Kioxia has not officially announced the standard retail price of the LC9 series products; some overseas integrators/distributors quote approximately $21,000 to $30,000 (IT Home note: approximately 140,000 to 201,000 RMB at current exchange rates). Calculated on this basis, the value of the 640 drives alone exceeds $13.44 million to $19.2 million (approximately 89.857 million to 128 million RMB at current exchange rates).
The Kioxia LC9 series uses the company's eighth-generation BiCS FLASH 3D QLC flash technology and a 32-die stacking architecture, with a maximum capacity of 245.76TB in the E3.L form factor and a maximum capacity of 122.88TB in the 2.5-inch and E3.S form factors. The series also supports flash memory die failure protection, with a mean time to failure (MTTF) of 2.5 million hours.
In terms of specifications, the LC9 series complies with PCIe 5.0, NVMe 2.0, and NVMe-MI 1.2c specifications, and supports some Open Compute Project (OCP) Data Center NVMe SSD Specification v2.5 requirements, as well as the Flexible Data Placement (FDP) feature. Security options include SIE, SED, and FIPS 140-3 validation, and support for CNSA 2.0 firmware signing.
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