diff --git a/backend/src/utils/constants.ts b/backend/src/utils/constants.ts
index e935938365..f85ea49e80 100644
--- a/backend/src/utils/constants.ts
+++ b/backend/src/utils/constants.ts
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ export const blankDashboardCR: DashboardConfig = {
       disableDistributedWorkloads: false,
       disableModelRegistry: true,
       disableConnectionTypes: true,
-      disableStorageClasses: true,
+      disableStorageClasses: false,
       disableNIMModelServing: true,
     },
     notebookController: {
diff --git a/docs/dashboard-config.md b/docs/dashboard-config.md
index 0e9b7e763d..be9e43a41e 100644
--- a/docs/dashboard-config.md
+++ b/docs/dashboard-config.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ The following are a list of features that are supported, along with there defaul
 | disableDistributedWorkloads  | false   | Disables Distributed Workload Metrics from the dashboard.                                            |
 | disableModelRegistry         | true    | Disables Model Registry from the dashboard.                                                          |
 | disableConnectionTypes       | true    | Disables creating custom data connection types from the dashboard.                                   |
-| disableStorageClasses        | true    | Disables storage classes settings nav item from the dashboard.                                       |
+| disableStorageClasses        | false    | Disables storage classes settings nav item from the dashboard.                                       |
 | disableNIMModelServing       | true    | Disables components of NIM Model UI from the dashboard.   
 
 ## Defaults
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ spec:
     disablePipelineExperiments: true
     disableDistributedWorkloads: false
     disableConnectionTypes: false
-    disableStorageClasses: true
+    disableStorageClasses: false
     disableNIMModelServing: true
 ```
 
diff --git a/manifests/rhoai/shared/odhdashboardconfig/odhdashboardconfig.yaml b/manifests/rhoai/shared/odhdashboardconfig/odhdashboardconfig.yaml
index 79fe75e0bc..9759f70462 100644
--- a/manifests/rhoai/shared/odhdashboardconfig/odhdashboardconfig.yaml
+++ b/manifests/rhoai/shared/odhdashboardconfig/odhdashboardconfig.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ spec:
     disableDistributedWorkloads: false
     disableModelRegistry: true
     disableConnectionTypes: true
-    disableStorageClasses: true
+    disableStorageClasses: false
     disableNIMModelServing: true
   groupsConfig:
     adminGroups: "$(admin_groups)"