- The first generation system is slower than the band but aims to evolve quickly by 2030
- Cerabbyte’s roadmap involves so advanced physics that it looks like science fiction with helium ions beams
- The long -term capacity is based on speculative technology which does not yet exist outside the laboratory parameters
Munichte Munichte startups develop what he claims could become a disturbing alternative to magnetic band in the storage of archival data.
Using femtosecond lasers to climb data on ceramic layers in glass shelves, the company is considering racks with more than 100 petacts (100,000 TB) by the end of the decade.
However, despite these daring objectives, practical constraints mean that this can take decades before such a capacity sees the use of the real world.
The trip to 100PB racks begins with slower first generation systems
CMO and the co-founder Martin Kunze described the vision during the recent A3 Tech Live event, noting that the system is based on “femtosecond laser engraving of a ceramic recording layer on a glass tablet substrate”.
These tablets are housed in cartridges and locked up by robotic arms inside the strip library style cabinets, a familiar configuration with an unconventional touch.
The pilot system, expected by 2026, aims to deliver 1 petact per rack with a time of 90 seconds to the first byte and only 100 Mbps in a sustained bandwidth.
During several refresh cycles, Cerabbyte claims that performance will increase, and by 2029 or 2030, he plans “a PB archive storage rack of more than 100 GBPS with a bandwidth of 2 GBPS and a time less than 10 seconds for the first byte.”
The long -term projections of the company are even more ambitious, and it estimates that the femtosecond laser technology could evolve into “a particle beam matrix technology” capable of reducing the size of the Bit from 300 Nm to 3 Nm.
With the writing of the helium ions beam by 2045, Cerabbyte imagines a system containing up to 100,000 bp in a single rack.
However, these claims are impregnated with speculative physics and should, as the report says, be “amazed but reduced as a technology achievable for the moment”.
The declared advantages of Cerabbyte compared to competitors such as Microsoft Project Silica, Holomem and DNA Storage include larger media longevity, faster access times and a lower cost per teraoctet.
“It lasts more than 100 years compared to the 7 to 15 years of Tape,” said Kunze, the solution is designed to manage long -term storage with a lower environmental impact.
He also said that technology could send data “to 1 to 2GBPs against 1 Gbit / s” and “Cost $ 1 per TB against $ 2 per TB by TB”.
So far, the company has obtained around $ 10 million in seed capital and more than $ 4 million in grants.
He is now looking for VC in A-round funding, with donors, including Western Digital, Pure Storage and In-Q-TEL.
Whether Céabyte becomes a viable alternative to traditional archive storage methods or ends with another theoretical advance does not only depend on density, but long -term reliability and profitability.
Even if this does not become a practical alternative to large hard drives by 2045, Cerabbyte’s work can always influence the future of the long -term storage of data, but not on computer chronology.
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