Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server • Hacker News Board

Re: Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Post by geerlingguy » Sat, May 16, 2026, 6:55 PM UTC

louwrentius wrote: post #5

What would this cost?

I can't remember where I saw it, but I think each of these high capacity drives is in well into the 15-25k price range.

So a petabyte will be $600-800k alone, plus a server with enough high-speed PCIe lanes to serve the 40+ drives, definitely $1m+

Re: Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Post by NitpickLawyer » Sat, May 16, 2026, 6:56 PM UTC

There's been a lot of talk about orbital DCs lately, but with these levels of density, orbital CDNs might be a more obvious usecase. It would be interesting to see if something like Starlink can use something like this to cache media content and reduce their overall data moving through the constellation. It could even be worth it to have some satellites in higher orbits (even GEO if the ground hw can reach it) dedicated to streaming media content. You can tolerate higher RTT for content that doesn't need to be real time.

Re: Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Post by bracketfocus » Sat, May 16, 2026, 6:58 PM UTC

louwrentius wrote: post #5

What would this cost?

They are likely 200USD+ per TB, so one 250TB drive would be ~50,000USD.

There’s probably bulk pricing, but if you bought 40 drives separately thats 2,000,000USD in storage alone.

Re: Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Post by bombcar » Sat, May 16, 2026, 7:01 PM UTC

Full NICs takes about 666 minutes to fill this thing.

Satan’s NAS!

Re: Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Post by lostlogin » Sat, May 16, 2026, 7:04 PM UTC

gosub100 wrote: post #8

louwrentius wrote: post #5

What would this cost?

You can't buy this stuff anymore. They are leased and rented through layers of middlemen.

> anymore

Could you ever buy it?

Re: Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Post by retired » Sat, May 16, 2026, 7:06 PM UTC

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Re: Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Post by mx7zysuj4xew » Sat, May 16, 2026, 7:06 PM UTC

joe_mamba wrote: post #3

Can't wait to move my spinning rust NAS to this in 20 years.

Sadly none of that enterprise hardware will ever make it to you due to being wastefully shredded

Re: Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Post by tanseydavid » Sat, May 16, 2026, 7:07 PM UTC

darknavi wrote: post #9

reactordev wrote: post #2

Remember that season of Silicon Valley on HBO that was all about “the box”? I feel like we’re in that season.

Just waiting for the Gavin Belson edition box.

Signature edition ;)

Re: Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Post by nickstinemates » Sat, May 16, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC

retired wrote: post #16

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Hitting a little too close to home with this comment.

Re: Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Post by trvz » Sat, May 16, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

retired wrote: post #16

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Not quite yet.

The interesting thing here is ~256TB in a single drive, but it's in E3.L form factor.

I have about 160TB on hard drives that I'm waiting to offload onto a single SSD.

But that needs to come with a connector that has adapters to USB-C, so I can attach it to my Macbook Neo.

Hopefully they get it a bit more dense soon and into the 2.5" NVMe form.