Kioxia and Dell Technologies have collaborated to develop an object storage solution capable of holding 157PB of data within a single standard 42U rack. This deployment utilizes 16 Dell PowerEdge R7725xd servers equipped with a total of 640 Kioxia LC9 series SSDs, each offering a capacity of 245.76TB.
The system leverages the Dell ObjectScale platform, which is designed for enterprise-level cloud-scale object storage. This architecture is intended to support workloads such as AI training, big data analytics, and cloud-native applications, addressing the increasing demand for storage capacity in modern data centers.
The Kioxia LC9 series SSDs are built using the company's eighth-generation BiCS FLASH 3D QLC technology with a 32-die stacking architecture. These drives support PCIe 5.0 and NVMe 2.0 specifications, featuring a mean time to failure (MTTF) of 2.5 million hours and various security certifications including FIPS 140-3.
