By Emma Job
Publication Date: 2025-11-30 08:33:00
IBM has expanded its Storage Scale System 6000 to support up to 47PB of capacity in a single full rack, marking a threefold increase from its earlier limits. The upgrade follows the launch of new All-Flash Expansion Enclosures fitted with 122TB QLC flash drives, giving organisations a high-density option for handling large volumes of data. The development is aimed at operators running supercomputing workloads, large artificial intelligence pipelines, and cloud services that depend on high throughput and constant availability.
According to IBM, the new hardware design is built to deliver steady performance under heavy workloads while reducing the complexity of scaling large clusters. The expanded platform supports bigger caches that enable multitenancy across several layers of a cluster. IBM maintains that this helps operators run multiple data-intensive workloads simultaneously without causing bottlenecks across the file system.
The All-Flash Expansion Enclosure itself…
