Kioxia Unveils Upcoming High-Capacity LC9 Series 122.88TB NVMe 2.5-Inch SSD for AI Applications
StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, March 14th, 2025
Kioxia America, Inc. announced the development of its LC9 Series 122.88TB capacity NVMe SSD in a 2.5-inch form factor - a first SSD built with the company's BiCS FLASH Gen8 3D flash memory technology QLC 2 tb die.
As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated and data volumes continue to grow, enterprises require storage solutions that can keep pace with the complex demands of modern workloads. High-capacity drives are critical for certain phases of the AI process, including large language models (LLMs), training and storing vast datasets, vector databases and the rapid retrieval of information for inference and fine-tuning.
Designed for generative AI applications, the new enterprise-class Kioxia drive is built for capacity and provides a PCIe 5.0 interface and dual-port capability for fault tolerance or connectivity to multiple compute systems. These high-capacity QLC-based SSDs are suitable for deploying in hybrid cloud and multi-cloud systems. High-capacity SSDs feed training and inference data to AI server systems via these cloud configurations.