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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Anton Shilov

Nvidia and Kioxia target 100 million IOPS SSD in 2027 — AI server drives aim to deliver 33 times more performance

Kioxia LC9 123TB SSD.

Kioxia is working with Nvidia to build a solid-state drive that would deliver 100 million random IOPS already in 2027, the company said at a news conference earlier this month, Nikkei reports. Nvidia reportedly plans to use a couple of such SSDs — totalling a whopping 200 million IOPS — attached directly to its GPUs to boost AI performance.

"We will proceed with development in accordance with the proposals and requests from Nvidia," said Koichi Fukuda, chief technology officer of Kioxia's SSD division.

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