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
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27 Comments on Cerabyte's Ceramic Storage Medium Hyped as Industry Disruptor

#26
AusWolf
LaykunInternal company politics and poor leadership generally allow holes to open in the market for smaller competitors to enter and eat their lunch, it's happened again and again throughout history. I don't think it's as unlikely as you might think.
Larger companies have the advantage of having enough capital to weather the changes in the market.
Smaller companies have the advantage of reacting to changes quicker (if their leadership is competent enough).

Similarly to ships: bigger ones don't feel the waves as much, but small ones can manoeuvre through rivers and shallow water.

Like basically everywhere else, not everything is about size. :)
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#27
Pizdarenkowitch
Microsoft has already everything working ... i guess the only one missing puzzle here is about the writing and reading speed which is 720KB/s which is not so grEat if you consider that a silica plate like that can actually be filled up to 360TB!!!
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