KIOXIA America, Inc. today announced a new storage-density milestone for modern AI and data lake workloads. The company worked with Dell Technologies on the effort. Together, they used 245.76 TB KIOXIA LC9 Series SSDs to build the world’s first 157 PB object storage solution. The entire system fits in a single industry-standard 42U server rack.
Furthermore, the solution improves data center efficiency. It offers a smaller storage footprint, higher TB/W and lower cooling requirements. HDDs or lower capacity SSDs at the same capacity cannot match those gains. As a result, customers can consolidate more data into fewer systems and racks. They also reduce cabling, power and cooling needs.
Dell ObjectScale™ software runs the solution on 16 PowerEdge™ R7725xd servers. Engineers configured the system with 640 KIOXIA LC9 Series 245.76 TB SSDs. This setup delivers 157 PB of raw flash capacity in an industry-standard 42U rack. Moreover, Dell ObjectScale is an enterprise-grade, cloud-scale object storage platform. It supports unstructured data workloads, including AI training, big data analytics and modern cloud-native applications.
AI Reshapes Infrastructure Requirements
157 PB object storage workloads keep driving growth in unstructured data. Therefore, organizations need storage with higher capacity. However, they cannot afford more rack space, power consumption or cooling. High-capacity NVMe™ SSDs help address these demands. They consolidate more data into a smaller, more efficient infrastructure footprint.
Dell Technologies and Kioxia share a long history of enabling scalable infrastructure for data-driven applications. This latest milestone underscores their shared commitment to high-density architectures. These designs improve performance, reduce energy consumption and maximize data center efficiency. Last summer, Kioxia announced the industry’s first 245.76 TB NVMe SSD. The company highlighted its value for generative AI, large-scale datasets, vector databases and other data-intensive environments. In addition, Dell Technologies published a blog on high-density object storage for AI-era data environments using KIOXIA 245.76 TB SSDs.
“AI is driving unprecedented growth in unstructured data, and customers need to scale capacity without scaling their data center footprint and power consumption,” said George Papadopoulos, SVP, Product & Engineering, Dell Technologies. “With Dell ObjectScale and KIOXIA’s 245.76 TB SSDs, customers can consolidate more data into fewer systems and racks while reducing cabling, power and cooling requirements. This collaboration helps deliver a more efficient, scalable foundation for AI and data-intensive workloads.”
Key Features of the KIOXIA LC9 Series
The KIOXIA LC9 Series includes the following features:
- Built with KIOXIA BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 3D QLC technology and 32-die stack architecture, enabling industry-leading density
- Up to 245.76 TB in an E3.L form factor
- Up to 122.88 TB available in 2.5-inch and E3.S form factors
- Flash die failure protection
- Mean time to failure (MTTF): 2.5 million hours (over 285 years)
- Compliant with PCIe® 5.0, NVMe™ 2.0 and NVMe-MI™ 1.2c specifications
- Open Compute Project (OCP) Datacenter NVMe SSD specification v2.5 support (not all requirements)
- Flexible Data Placement (FDP) support to minimize write amplification and extend SSD lifespan
- Security options including SIE, SED and FIPS 140-3 validation
- CNSA 2.0 firmware-signing support
“KIOXIA’s 245.76 TB LC9 Series SSDs enable Dell Technologies to deliver a new level of storage density for AI and data-intensive workloads – helping customers consolidate massive data footprints into fewer systems while improving data center efficiency and scalability,” said Faraz Velani, Head of Go-to-Market, SSD business unit at KIOXIA America, Inc. “Together, KIOXIA and Dell are redefining what’s possible with high-capacity flash storage.”
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