Storage Scale System 6000 is designed for extreme performance. It features:

• a single 4U node with active-active controllers and redundant hardware to maximize uptime;
• up to 330 gigabytes per second (GB/S) throughput with low latency;
• up to 13 million IOPS with the NVMeoF performance tier; and
• up to 3.4PBe (effective capacity) in a standard 4U rack space.

Storage Scale System 6000 is engineered to scale to thousands of nodes and petabytes of capacity. It runs IBM Storage Scale RAID erasure coding, which provides data efficiency, consistent high performance, mitigation of storage hardware failures, intelligent monitoring and dynamic tuning of IBM Storage Scale System and IBM Storage Scale data. Installations and updates are delivered by containerized software that speeds and simplifies the maintenance process.

To accelerate the processing of globally distributed data, Storage Scale System 6000 supports the NVIDIA GPUdirect Storage protocol, which enables a direct data path between GPU memory and local or remote storage, such as NVMe or NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF).

Storage Scale System 6000 uses a simple building-block approach with performance that scales linearly. That is, a cluster of 10 Storage Scale System 6000 systems is capable of more than 3 terabytes per second throughput. It supports up to nine SAS hard disk drive expansion enclosures.