Weka's new pod claims 1000PB in a 56U rack using 1,800 Micron 245.76TB SSDs and a decades-old compression trick
- WEKApod 3 reaches exabyte capacity through software alongside dense Micron storage
- NeuralMesh 6 turns 441.5PB of flash into claimed exabyte-scale storage capacity
- WEKApod 3 relies on compression to exceed raw storage hardware limits
WEKA has launched WEKApod 3, a storage appliance line built specifically to run its new NeuralMesh 6 software at rack-scale density.
The flagship Prime Max configuration claims 1.1 exabytes of effective capacity within a single 56U rack, positioning it as the first system to cross that threshold.
Using Micron's 245.76 TB 6600 ION SSDs across roughly 1,800 drives per rack yields only 441.5 PB of raw hardware capacity, well under half an exabyte.
Software tiering closes the capacity gap
This means that the advertised exabyte-scale capacity depends heavily on data reduction technologies rather than installed flash alone.
That configuration packs 70 NVMe drives into a compact two-rack-unit, two-node chassis for maximum density.
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