Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

What would this cost?

Can't wait to move my spinning rust NAS to this in 20 years.

Remember that season of Silicon Valley on HBO that was all about “the box”?

I feel like we’re in that season.

What would this cost?

I can't remember where I saw it, but I think each of these high capacity drives is in well into the 15-25k price range.

So a petabyte will be $600-800k alone, plus a server with enough high-speed PCIe lanes to serve the 40+ drives, definitely $1m+

They are likely 200USD+ per TB, so one 250TB drive would be ~50,000USD.

There’s probably bulk pricing, but if you bought 40 drives separately thats 2,000,000USD in storage alone.

$500 on Facebook Marketplace in 20 years time.

More than you can afford cause you had to ask, ha

You can't buy this stuff anymore. They are leased and rented through layers of middlemen.

Can't wait to move my spinning rust NAS to this in 20 years.

I went to QLC for my NAS last cycle. The $/TB was worse, but not by a huge margin, and the performance is quite a bit better (not that it matters).

I've been wanting to update my (100TB) NAS for over five years, but I haven't yet found anything that I feel is worth upgrading to. One of these with a QSFP56 interface would be nice, but I would need to sell one of my houses to pay for it, so I'll be waiting a little longer...

Sadly none of that enterprise hardware will ever make it to you due to being wastefully shredded

NVME SSDs are consumable items more so than HDDs are.

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.

I can't remember where I saw it, but I think each of these high capacity drives is in well into the 15-25k price range.

So a petabyte will be $600-800k alone, plus a server with enough high-speed PCIe lanes to serve the 40+ drives, definitely $1m+

More than you can afford cause you had to ask, ha

$500 on Facebook Marketplace in 20 years time.

I went to QLC for my NAS last cycle. The $/TB was worse, but not by a huge margin, and the performance is quite a bit better (not that it matters).

They are likely 200USD+ per TB, so one 250TB drive would be ~50,000USD.

There’s probably bulk pricing, but if you bought 40 drives separately thats 2,000,000USD in storage alone.

It's actually now at least 400 per tb.

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

Remember that season of Silicon Valley on HBO that was all about “the box”?

I feel like we’re in that season.

Sadly none of that enterprise hardware will ever make it to you due to being wastefully shredded

You can't buy this stuff anymore. They are leased and rented through layers of middlemen.

NVME SSDs are consumable items more so than HDDs are.

Just waiting for the Gavin Belson edition box.

I work in the refurb department of an e-waste recycling company. In my n=1 data point, some server drives are shredded/destroyed, some aren't (maybe half) before they reach my team. Of the ones that aren't, most are too small to sell, or have bad reads or reallocated sectors. Maybe 10% are fit to resell, not zero.

> anymore

Could you ever buy it?

I work in the refurb department of an e-waste recycling company. Some SSD brands are more durable than others. In my experience, a greater proportion of Intel and Micron SSDs are (or have) failed than any other brand. It's as if sysadmins are like "Intel is a good brand, lets use these SSDs to cache our HDD storage array", then throw them out when they turn read-only.

It's actually now at least 400 per tb.

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

Just waiting for the Gavin Belson edition box.

Signature edition ;)

> anymore

Could you ever buy it?

The 64's and 128's could be bought, and were not even totally unreasonable, price wise, at intro (IE <100/tb).

Concretely: a 64TB was like 6000 bucks last year. You could get them easily. It's now 25,000 for the same SSD.

The 64's and 128's could be bought, and were not even totally unreasonable, price wise, at intro (IE <100/tb).

Concretely: a 64TB was like 6000 bucks last year. You could get them easily. It's now 25,000 for the same SSD.

Signature edition ;)

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.

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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.

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