Subj : Kioxia unveils 246TB SSD behemoth  the LC 9 is the largest SSD ev
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Date : Tue Jul 22 2025 10:15:07

Kioxia unveils 246TB SSD behemoth  the LC 9 is the largest SSD ever launched 
and can store 52,000 DVD movies

Date:
Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:06:46 +0000

Description:
LC9 snatched the capacity crown from Solidigm for now, but the race to the 
storage champion is only getting started.

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======================================================================Kioxia 
has added a 245.76TB SSD to its LC9 series It is the biggest SSD ever 
launched, and is already being sampled to clients Solidigm, Phison, Dapustor, 
Samsung and Sandisk are the other big contenders in this category 

Japanese SSD vendor Kioxia has unveiled a 245.76TB NVMe SSD, the LC9, which 
is squarely aimed at enterprise clients looking for the highest capacity 
available. 

Capable of holding more than 52,000 DVD movies, it is the largest SSD ever 
launched, at twice the capacity of the next biggest SSD, the Solidigm 
D5-P5336. 

The LC9 is available in legacy 2.5-inch as well as E3.L form factor. A 
smaller 122.88TB SSD can be ordered in a more compact E3.S form factor. 
Kioxia didnt provide more details other than it is a PCIe 5.0 product 
offering a wide range of security options (SIE, SED, FIPS SED etc) and 
support for OCP specs. Supersized SSD are essential for AI 

We dont know what the warranty or endurance (measured in drives written per 
day) are but we do know that the storage device uses a proprietary NAND 
solution, a 32-die stack of 2 Tb BICS FLASH QLC 3D flash memory; thats one 
chip containing 8TB of storage. 

Kioaix has confirmed the LC9 will make a formal debut at the Future of Memory 
and Storage 2025 conference, and some customers will have samples soon. 

Generative AI has put GPUs and compute squarely in the limelight but storage 
(or system memory) is rarely mentioned and yet pivotal to any AI success 
story. 

As Kioxia puts it, GAI places unique demands on storage, including the need 
to store vast datasets for training large language models (LLMs), and to 
create embeddings and vector databases that support inference through 
retrieval augmented generation (RAG). 

And we can thank AI for being the catalyst in the current storage race. For 
the best part of a decade, Exadrives 100TB 2.5-inch SSD was the storage 
champion but since then Solidigm , Phison , Dapustor and Samsung , have 
showcased or launched 122.88TB SSDs. 

 Sandisk , Kioxias partner also confirmed it will launch a 256TB SSD in 2026 
and a 512TB SSD in 2027. It is worth highlighting all these drives are geared 
towards hyperscalers and the enterprise market and will compete against hard 
drives like Seagates 36TB Exos M . 

Consumers will have to contend with 8TB SSDs, currently the largest capacity 
for mainstream buyers, a glass ceiling that hasnt been shattered for the past 
five years and unlikely to change for the foreseeable future . You might also 
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