Friday, September 8th 2023
Cerabyte's Ceramic Storage Medium Hyped as Industry Disruptor
Cerabyte/Ceramic Data Solutions Holding GmbH, a German storage technology startup, is hyping up its nanolayer-based storage method: "creating the most reliable data storage ever. Data is safe in a wide temperature range of -273 °C (-460 °F) to 300 °C (570 °F) and even in corrosive or acidic atmosphere. Also radiation and an EMP can't destroy information stored on (our system)." The firm's leadership is comprised of self-described "pioneers," with a goal to disrupt the storage market (worth $500 billion)—they want to reduce data center storage total cost of ownership (TCO) by 75 %, while introducing their environment friendly solution that: "requires 99 % less energy. Sustainable long-term data storage is one of the most urgent problems in our world. Cerabyte is the solution for reducing 99% of CO2 emissions generated by conventional cloud data storage."
A product preview showcases the potential of multiple CeraMemory cartridges (2025-30) in a rack formation capable of storing between 10 PB and 100 PB of data, and their CeraTape (2030-35) series offering up to 1 EB capacity per unit. Cerabyte representatives are set to discuss their technologies at the 2023 Storage Developer Conference, scheduled to take place later this month (September 18 to 21). Their "Ceramic Nano Memory - Data Storage for the Yottabyte Era" abstract is available to view in advance of the upcoming meet up in Silicon Valley.
Ceramics lasts 5,000+ years
Safe storage for generations...durable as hieroglyphs:
Cerabyte was founded by a handful of pioneers who dared to re-think sustainable data storage from scratch. Our vision is to store all data forever and to preserve today's digital records for future use.
Sources:
Blocks and Files, Tom's Hardware, Cerabyte, Cerabyte Agenda
A product preview showcases the potential of multiple CeraMemory cartridges (2025-30) in a rack formation capable of storing between 10 PB and 100 PB of data, and their CeraTape (2030-35) series offering up to 1 EB capacity per unit. Cerabyte representatives are set to discuss their technologies at the 2023 Storage Developer Conference, scheduled to take place later this month (September 18 to 21). Their "Ceramic Nano Memory - Data Storage for the Yottabyte Era" abstract is available to view in advance of the upcoming meet up in Silicon Valley.
Safe storage for generations...durable as hieroglyphs:
Cerabyte was founded by a handful of pioneers who dared to re-think sustainable data storage from scratch. Our vision is to store all data forever and to preserve today's digital records for future use.
27 Comments on Cerabyte's Ceramic Storage Medium Hyped as Industry Disruptor
Unless they have some practical demos I could see it fail because of so many reasons.
But speaking specifically of hardware and the like, I find it very difficult for these small companies to prosper in creating something that the multi-billionaires haven't managed yet (or have already patented, bought the IP etc...).
Ribbit!
So, either they are trying to do a budget-friendly Project Glass copypasta, or [more likely] all they really have is 3D renders and stock footage along with few semi-competent people to answer simple questions from investors, with no intention of developing anything real any time soon. Mind you - they already make all those bold claims about petabyte capacities and multigig read speeds while they don't even have a whitepaper or anything else of a sorts. Heck, even crypto startups publish whitepaper or anything resembling a proper technical document before they scam people out of their money. These guys didn't even bother doing that.
.. or maybe I am wrong and they are secretly a team of talented super-physicists with a revolutionary tech, but with really bad presentation skills.:slap:
Even with the revolutionary product you are in the beginning very constrained in terms of volume (you can’t just scale up production, that cost lots and lots of money) - and if the product is really desirable, the price will of course shoot up - and then marketing might calculate it makes more sense to continue to produce it as a niche very expensive product instead of trying to risk a very large production with lower margins. And this many times has no relation with the real manufacturing and development cost.
You can have all YouTube offline and then some.
That's about 1% of all data generated so far, isn't it?
Cell phones have replaced the home for most users. They had to break up the landline monopoly.
Uber has replaced taxis almost everywhere.
The same can be said about cell phones replacing landline - it wasn't really a product of a startup, the whole industry established itself before beginning to slowly replace the stationary phones - and in many countries households still have stationery phones, even if noone uses them any more - here for instance you can't buy internet & TV package without getting a landline phone with it, no matter which company you choose.
And Uber is even illegal in some countries, and where it is popluar taxis still exist.