IBM FlashSystems Flash Storage

The IBM FlashSystem has the highest customer satisfaction rating in the industry for 2022 in the Enterprise Class Flash Storage category according to TrustRadius. Optional Safeguarded Copy feature enables immutable backup snapshots for immutable storage, ensuring backups cannot be changed once created for Cyber Resilience, and the Cyber Vault feature continuously monitors each backup copy to detect data corruption or abnormal changes as a result of viruses, ransomware, malware or like cyberattacks. IBM Flash Storage offerings are now affordable for companies of any size, and without compromising performance or sacrificing features. Now, even small companies can take advantage of the most advanced and secure Flash Storage systems on the market, and achieve the same benefits as the largest data centers. The all new IBM Flash Storage line can be used for any size workload, small businesses to the most extreme performance requirements of the largest companies. View the IBM Storage specifications and comparison page for help sizing the correct IBM FlashSystem for your business.

IBM FlashSystem 5000 FS5015 2072-2N2 2072-2N4 Flash Storage
Max bandwidth: 8 GB/s throughput
Max Latency/IOPS Response times: 70 microseconds, 1.2 million IOPs
Max Cache per enclosure: 32GB or 64GB
Max capacity per 2U enclosure: 550 TBs
Max Drives per system: 504/1,008 for 32PB

IBM FlashSystem 5000 FS5035 2072-3N2 2072-3N4 Flash Storage
Max bandwidth: 12 GB/s throughput
Max Latency/IOPS Response times: 70 microseconds, 1.2 million IOPs
Max Cache per enclosure/cluster: 32 GB or 64 GB / 64GB or 128GB
Max capacity per 2U enclosure: 550 TBs
Max Drives per system/cluster: 504/1,008 for 32 PB

IBM FlashSystem 5200 FS5200 4662-6H2 Flash Storage
Max bandwidth: 21 GB/s throughput
Max Latency/IOPS Response times: 50 microseconds, 1.5 million IOPS
Clustered max bandwidth/IOPS Response times: 84 GB/s, 6 million IOPS
Max Cache per enclosure/cluster: 64 or 512 GB / 256 GB or 2.04 TB
Max capacity per 1U enclosure/expansion: 1.2 PB / 32 PB
Max Drives per system/cluster: 748/2,992

IBM FlashSystem FS7200 2076-824 2076-U7C Flash Storage
Max bandwidth unit/cluster: 35 GB/s
Max latency/IOPS Response times: 70 microseconds, Up to 2.3 million IOPs
Clustered max bandwidth/IOPS Response times: 140 GB/s, 9.2 million IOPS
Max Cache per enclosure/cluster: 1 TB / 6TB
Max capacity per 2U / 8U enclosure: 1.62 PB via 368 drives / 32 PB

IBM FlashSystem FS7300 4657-924 Flash Storage
Max bandwidth unit/cluster: 35 GB/s
Max latency/IOPS Response times: 70 microseconds, Up to 2.3 million IOPs
Clustered max bandwidth/IOPS Response times: 140 GB/s, 9.2 million IOPS
Max Cache per enclosure/cluster: 1 TB / 6TB
Max capacity per 4U / 8U enclosure: 4.5 PB via 368 drives per array / 32PB

IBM FlashSystem FS9500 4666-AH8 Flash Storage
Max bandwidth: 65 GB/s to 100 GB/s throughput
Max Latency/IOPS Response times: 50 microseconds, Up to 8 million IOPs
Clustered max bandwidth/IOPS Response times: 130 GB/s, Up to 12. 6 million IOPS
Max Cache per enclosure/cluster: 1 TB to 3 TB / 6 TB
Max capacity per 4U enclosure: 4.5 PB via 368 drives per array

IBM FlashSystem FS9500R 4666-AH8 Flash Storage
Max bandwidth: 200 GB/s throughput
Latency/IOPS Response times: 50 microseconds, Up to 16 million IOPs
Cache per enclosure/cluster: 1 TB to 3 TB / 6 TB
Max capacity per 4U enclosure: 4.5 PB via 368 drives per array