Cerabyte Promises 100PB Per Rack Nanoceramic Storage
German startup Cerabyte Unveils Ambitious Roadmap at A3 Tech Live, where he outlined key goals for the coming years. The company is developing storage facilities based on nanoceramic layers and claims that by 2030, one rack unit will be able to accommodate up to 100 petabytes of data with a throughput of 2 GB/s.
The pilot system, scheduled for completion in 2025–2026, will provide only 1 PB per rack and a speed of 100 MB/s, with the time to first byte (TTFB) being about 90 seconds. Although such figures are suitable for archives, Cerabyte promises improvement of all parameters within five yearsThus, TTFB is planned to be reduced to 10 seconds, and productivity is planned to be increased by 20 times.
It is also mentioned that the transition to Cerabyte solutions will reduce carbon footprint of global data storage from 2% to 1,25% due to low energy consumption and durability. Data stability is declared for up to 5000 years.
Particular attention is paid to cost: The total cost of owning storage facilities should decrease from $7000–8000 to $6–8 per petabyte within five years. This could have a significant impact on the corporate archive market.
In the long term, by 2045, the transition to particle recording with 3 nm accuracy, which theoretically will allow achieving density up to 100 PB per rackThis will open the way to archiving global volumes of data, including historical copies of the entire Internet.
