So a petabyte will be $600-800k alone, plus a server with enough high-speed PCIe lanes to serve the 40+ drives, definitely $1m+
There’s probably bulk pricing, but if you bought 40 drives separately thats 2,000,000USD in storage alone.
I feel like we’re in that season.
These drives will arrive in the secondary market to be snapped up by businesses lower in the food chain. By the time you can find them they will be ridden hard and put away wet that you probably wont want them.
The 64's are 25k, up from 6k a year ago. I have to imagine the 128's or 256's are at least 500/tb
Concretely: a 64TB was like 6000 bucks last year. You could get them easily. It's now 25,000 for the same SSD.
Dell-Kioxia teaser.
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.

Kioxia’s LC9 SSDs
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."
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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.