- The 5D optical storage supports of Sphotonix appeared on the last episode of mission impossible
- A rare feat for a new product, its appearance is at the heart of the intrigue of the film
- Like Microsoft Silica, it uses a silica material to store up to 360 TB per glass tray
The Sphotonix storage startup won a role with a money repurchase in the Hollywood film on a big budget “Impossible mission, the last calculation“Where it ended up being part of the real scenario rather than a disposable and forgettable accessory.
(No spoiler alert), its basic product, a 5D optical storage support is used to store a critical element of the film’s plot, potentially for billions of years.
Having been used to saving the full human genome in January 2025, we know that it can store up to 360 TB on a 5-inch rectangular glass tray and uses a owner nano-laser engraving technology called femtotech.
It is much more than the largest SSD (Solidigm Solidigm 122.88 to P5-5336) or the hard drive (36 TB models of Seagate or WD) currently on the market-more on the operation of technology is in the promotional video below.
Other exotic storage competitors who wish to compete with cold storage, archiving environments such as LTO ribbon, include ceramic (ceabyte), silicon (silicon microsoft), DNA (biomermm, catalog), optical disc (folio photonics, OPTERA data).
It is a difficult market as evidenced by the disappearance of the ODA media inherited from Sony, but the experts agreed: the appetite raptor of AI for bytes, at rest or in motion, has changed the dynamics of the ecosystem.
The global market for corporate information archiving will amount to more than $ 17 billion by 2031, according to research published by Verified Market Research in 2024.
Sphotonix expects that by 2028, the world will produce nearly 400 data zettaoctes, with thousands of data centers worldwide more than 1000TWh of power.
The storage startup was based on more than 30 years of research by its director of science, Professor Kazansky, at the Optoelectronic Research Center of the University of Southampton.
I contacted Sphotonix to find out more about performance and other related media specifications, as well as significant deadlines and prices.
