- Novodisq requires the capacity of Rack 230PB using SSDs of 144 to owners
- Novoblade incorporates calculation, networking and storage in dense blade servers
- Novodisq promises a power of less than 95% compared to conventional tables
During the recent Summit Flash Memory, a new name for New Zealand has surfaced in an offer to cause waves in the company’s storage space.
Novodisq presented its Novoblade system, a platform designed to combine dense storage, calculation acceleration and network capacity in a compact design.
Novoblade modules are designed as blade servers, each offering 576 TB of raw storage built on flash discs. The discs themselves are based on E2-shaped factor’s SSD units with capabilities reaching 144 TB per device.
How Novoblade is structured
The company says that a 2U speaker can contain up to 20 modules, which is 11.75% capacity in a single shelf.
Scale this configuration on an entire 42U rack, Novodisq projects that storage can reach 230pb.
In addition to the storage figures, Novodisq promotes Novoblade as a hyperconverged design which incorporates calculation resources directly into each blade.
These include Arm64 cores, FPGA resources and optional AI or automatic learning engines, with a networking supported by 200 GBPS or 400 Gbit / Shernet.
The company positions this as a platform which can replace conventional NAS networks, with energy consumption up to 95% lower. These complaints, however, are difficult to validate without detailed independent benchmarks.
While the theoretical capacity seems high, the price of such a system raises serious questions.
The company has not announced official figures, but estimates can be made from existing equipment, because only one SSD of 122.88 TB is currently (August 2025) costs nearly $ 14,000.
Use as a reference and taking into account the SSD owners of Novoblade 144 TB, a single blade with four discs could already exceed $ 60,000 before considering computing and networking added.
With 20 blades in a 2U speaker, the total could approach $ 1.2 million. Extending to a complete 42U rack with 230pb of gross storage means would increase far beyond $ 2 million.
This positions Novoblade as an extremely dense solution, but that only highly specialized organizations could justify financially.
On paper, these figures suggest one of the densest deployments to date, but the use and practical performance remain not tested.
Novodisq describes Novoblade as a storage server and a converged calculation platform.
It can expose block, files and object interfaces, or integrate into distributed systems such as CEPH or Chandelier.
Currently, the main players in the storage field continue to focus on balancing capacity with performance.
Therefore, it remains uncertain if Novodisq can provide not only the most important or fastest SSD arrangements, but also sustainable prices and support.
