{
  "id": 19524292,
  "title": "Kioxia has chained together 640 SSDs to create a 157 *petabyte* storage solution, because AI data centers get all the cool toys",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/kioxia-has-chained-together-640-ssds-to-create-a-157-petabyte-storage",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-11T16:16:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PC Gamer",
    "slug": "pc-gamer",
    "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/storage/kioxia-has-chained-together-640-ssds-to-create-a-157-petabyte-storage-solution-because-ai-data-centers-get-all-the-cool-toys/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "Got any spare gigabytes, guv?",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}