Kioxia has chained together 640 SSDs to create a 157 *petabyte* storage solution, because AI data centers get all the cool toys

Kioxia has set a new record for storage density by linking 640 of its 245.76 TB enterprise SSDs together to generate a staggering 157 petabytes of storage within a single rack cabinet. This remarkable achievement, which is equivalent to 157 million gigabytes, is sufficient to install the 190 GB game God of War: Ragnarok over 820,000 times.

The storage solution was developed in partnership with Dell and consists of 16 PowerEdge R7725xd servers, each containing 40 Kioxia LC9 Series drives inside a standard 42U server rack. As AI workloads drive the growth of unstructured data, organizations require storage that can offer higher capacity without increasing data center floor/rack space, power consumption, or cooling requirements.

The press release emphasizes that high-capacity NVMe SSDs can help address these demands by consolidating more data into a smaller, more efficient infrastructure footprint. This development is particularly timely, as the need for physical data center space is becoming increasingly problematic, and installing more storage in a single rack can help save on concrete.

While this level of excessive consumption may seem jarring, given consumers are already struggling financially amid a NAND flash crisis, it is clear that Kioxia and Dell are focused on providing AI-related solutions by cramming as much storage as possible into one handy box.