Dell and KIOXIA unveil an impressive 9.8 Petabyte high-density 2U server

What happens when you pair the Dell PowerEdge R7725xd Server with 40 KIOXIA LC9 Series 245.76 TB SSDs? Well, you get something unprecedented and impressive: a 2U server for enterprise and data centers with 9.8 Petabytes (PB) of flash storage. And to highlight just how much storage capacity that is, 9.8 PB is equivalent to 9,800 terabytes (TB) or 9,800,000 Gigabytes (GB).

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This setup is impressive not only in its storage capacity but also in the flash technology it employs. KIOXIA's LC9 Series delivers PCIe Gen5 speeds of up to 12,000 MB/s paired with the company's 8th Gen BiCS FLASH with CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology, which leads to 32 2-Terabit (Tb) dies stacked together to offer the groundbreaking 245.76 TB capacity on a single 2.5-inch Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) SSD.

In addition to the impressive SSD setup, this Dell PowerEdge R7725xd server also sports a high-end AMD EPYC processor to meet the demands of large-scale "data lakes," AI, and intensive enterprise workloads. And when it comes to AI, these air-cooled servers complement GPU-heavy systems with up to 5 x 400Gbps NICs for high-capacity, power-efficient model training and AI data management.

KIOXIA notes that a similar system with 9.8 PB of storage, using more common high-capacity SSDs of around 30 TB each, would require 280 additional drives and over eight times the power to run, in addition to the extra physical rack space. KIOXIA and Dell note that this impressive setup is designed to empower companies to scale their AI infrastructure.

"Our KIOXIA LC9 Series 245 TB QLC SSD isn't just higher density, it's a shift in how we architect AI infrastructures," Neville Ichhaporia, senior vice president and general manager of the SSD business unit at KIOXIA America, said. "With the Dell PowerEdge R7725xd server accommodating 40 drives, a whopping 9.8 PB in a single 2U system can be achieved. 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."

For those who want to see it in action, this impressive system will be on display at Dell Technologies World 2026, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas.