Dell and Kioxia pack nearly 10PB of QLC flash into a 2U PowerEdge server for AI and data lake workloads
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Dell is using Kioxia’s LC9 245.76TB NVMe SSDs to build a 2U PowerEdge R7725xd server with 9.8PB of all-flash capacity. The AMD EPYC-powered system supports up to five 400Gbps NICs, targeting AI infrastructure, large ingestion streams, data lakes, and backups.
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The system highlights how QLC SSDs are pushing flash into roles historically dominated by high-capacity hard drives. As vendors including Micron, Sandisk, SK Hynix, Solidigm, and Samsung pursue 256TB-class and larger SSDs, dense nearline flash could reshape storage economics for AI and analytics workloads.
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