The $1,000,000 Unboxing - Petabyte of Flash Part 1
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Check out the CD6 NVME SSD at lmg.gg $1,000,000 is how much this entire system costs, not including a YEAR of work hours from different companies to make this happen! Kioxia, AMD, NVIDIA, Supermicro, and WEKA combined their efforts, and they have blown our minds. Discuss on the forum: linustechtips.com
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The video chronicles the unboxing and initial setup of a monumental storage system that Linus Tech Tips describes as a petabyte-scale project. The opening segments establish the premise: this is not just a large box full of SSDs, but a coordinated engineering challenge involving Kioxia, Nvidia, Supermicro, AMD, and WEKA, all aimed at delivering a system capable of a massive sustained throughput. The hosts highlight the scale and cost, noting that the $1,000,000 figure represents the entire system and a year of collaborative work rather than a single purchase. The head unit, Powerto, and the dense server rack are introduced as the backbone of the architecture, with the SSDs occupying the storage hosts and the compute and networking living in a separate head unit connected via high-speed PCIe over fiber. Throughout, they emphasize the engineering tradeoffs, such as achieving maximum throughput while avoiding bottlenecks, and tease follow-up videos that will detail architecture, software, and benchmarks. The discussion also gives credit to the sponsoring vendors and outlines the high-level plan for future installments in the series, promising deep dives into the setup and performance evaluations. By the end of the first segment, the hosts convey genuine excitement about what this hardware combination can achieve and set expectations for a multi-part documentary on the project.
Topics · data_center · hardware · technology · enterprise_storage · networking · computing
Questions answered
- What is the total estimated cost of the entire system as presented in the video?
- The video states the entire system costs about $1,000,000, encompassing the head unit, storage racks, and the surrounding infrastructure, with additional time and effort contributed by partner companies.
- Which companies collaborated to make this petabyte of flash possible?
- Kioxia provided the SSDs, and the project involved Nvidia, Supermicro, AMD, WEKA, Micron, and FS.com among others, illustrating a broad industry collaboration.
- What type of drives are used in the storage nodes and how many per server?
- The project uses Kioxia CD6 PCIe Gen-4x4 NVMe drives, with 12 drives per server occupying the storage capacity, totaling 72 drives across six servers.
- What is the significance of the head unit in this setup?
- The head unit hosts the compute and networking components, connected to the storage via PCIe over fiber to achieve the needed bandwidth for NVMe over Fabric communication.