Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

Dell and Kioxia just unveiled the kind of machine that makes regular hard drives look like horse carts: a server roughly the size of a big pizza box that can hold almost 10 petabytes of data, meaning nearly 10 million gigabytes. That’s a ridiculous amount of information in a very small space, and the community instantly did what communities do best: turned it into a mix of memes, nitpicks, and sci-fi fan fiction.

The loudest reaction was basically, “cool, but can anyone afford this?” One commenter cut straight to the point with a brutally simple question: what would this even cost? Another went full relatable-cheapskate, joking they’d upgrade their old “spinning rust” home storage setup to this beast in about 20 years. Translation: yes, it’s impressive, but for normal humans it might as well be a gold-plated spaceship.

Then came the comedy. One user said the whole thing felt like HBO’s Silicon Valley and its obsession with “the box,” which is honestly hard to unsee once you picture it. Another commenter dragged the article itself for mixing up terabytes and petabytes, saying that kind of typo now feels like proof a human wrote it — though they still weren’t impressed. And in peak internet fashion, someone took the idea all the way to space, imagining Starlink satellites using these mega-storage boxes as orbital media caches. So yes, Dell announced a giant leap in storage density — but the real show was the crowd asking whether this is genius, absurd, or just very expensive nerd bait.