Kioxia announced on November 11, 2026, that it had worked with Dell Technologies to build an object storage system with 157PB of raw capacity in one standard 42U rack. The companies describe it as the industry’s first single-rack object storage system at that capacity.
The configuration runs Dell’s ObjectScale software-defined object storage platform across 16 PowerEdge R7725xd servers. It uses 640 Kioxia LC9 SSDs, each with a capacity of 245.76TB. ObjectScale is designed for unstructured data workloads, including AI training, big-data analytics and cloud-native applications.
Kioxia has not published a standard retail price for the LC9. According to IT Home, some overseas integrators and distributors quote roughly $21,000–$30,000 per drive. At those quoted prices, the 640 SSDs alone would cost an estimated $13.44 million–$19.2 million; that is not a price for the complete system.
The LC9 series uses Kioxia’s eighth-generation BiCS FLASH 3D QLC memory and a 32-die stacking architecture. Its E3.L version reaches 245.76TB, while its 2.5-inch and E3.S versions reach 122.88TB. Kioxia lists a mean time to failure of 2.5 million hours for the series.