MinIO ExaPOD: Credible Architecture, Questions on Methodology

MinIO announced ExaPOD in November 2025, positioning it as &ldquo;The Reference Architecture for Exascale AI&rdquo; [1]. The announcement describes a validated hardware configuration achieving 1 EiB usable capacity with 19.2 TB/s aggregate throughput at $4.55-4.60 per TiB-month. Unlike many vendor announcements that traffic in impossible claims, MinIO&rsquo;s numbers appear mathematically sound.…