Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server
Key takeaways
- Dell is already using Kioxia’s LC9 in its Power Edge servers.
- There could be 196 PB in a rack fitted with twenty of these severs.
- Other developers of 256 TB-class SSDs include Micron (6600 ION), Sandisk (UltraQLC SN670), SK Hynix (AIN D) and its Solidigm subsidiary.
Dell-Kioxia teaser. Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server Chris Mellor Chris Mellor Blocks & Files editor Published thu 14 May 2026 // 15:21 UTC 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 Power Edge servers. It’s now putting 40 LC9 E3.L form factor 245.76 TB NVMe SSDs in its AMD EPYC 9005-powered Power Edge 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."