- The first generation system is slower than tape, but its goal is to increase rapidly by 2030
- Cerabyte’s roadmap includes physics, so it looks like science-fi with a helicium ion beam
- Long -term capacity rests on speculative technology that is not yet outside the lab settings
Munich-based startup is developing serbight that claims that archival can become a disruptive option for magnetic tape in data storage.
Using femtosecond lasers for data ETCH data on ceramic layers within the glass tablet, the company maintained the rack holding more than 100 petabytes (100,000TB) data by the end of the decade.
Nevertheless, despite these bold goals, practical obstacles mean that such ability can take decades before seeing the use of the real world.
The 100PB rack trip starts with slow, first generation systems
CMO and co-founder Martin Kunj recently underlined the vision at the A3 Tech Live event, given the system that the system “is a ceramic recording layer on a glass tablet substrate on the Famtosecond laser laser carriage.”
These pills are placed in the cartridge and the tape library-style is closed by robotic weapons inside the cabinets, which is a familiar setup with an unconventional twist.
The pilot system expected by 2026, the purpose is to distribute 1 petbite per rack per rack per rack per rack with just 100Mbps in the time of 90 seconds for the first byte.
On several fresh cycles, Serabite claims that performance will increase, and by 2029 or 2030, it estimates “100-Plus PB archial storage racks with 2GBPS bandwidth and sub-10-second time for the first byte.”
The company’s long -term estimates are even more ambitious, and assumes that the Famtosecond laser technology can develop in “a particle beam matrix tech” that is capable of reducing the bite size from 300Nm to 3Nm.
With helium ion beam writing by 2045, Serbite imagines a system up to 100,000pb in the same rack.
However, such claims are inserted into speculative physics and as the report says, “discounts as real technology for this time, but should be infallible on it.”
The declared benefits of Cerabyte on competitors such as Microsoft’s project silica, holomem, and DNA storage include greater media longevity, rapid access time and perfect cost per terabyte.
Kunj said, “For more than 100 years compared to 7 to 15 years of tape, Kunj said, the solution is designed to handle long -term storage with a low environmental impact.
He also stated that the technique “can ship data on 1GBPS of 1-2GBPS vs. tape,” and “cost $ 1 per TB against $ 2 per TB of the tape.”
So far, the company has received more than $ 10 million and more than $ 4 million in seed capital.
It is now demanding an A-round VC funding, with backers including Western digital, pure storage and IN-tail.
Whether the serbite becomes a viable option for traditional archival storage methods or ends as another theoretical advance, not only depends on density, but also on long-term reliability and cost-effectiveness.
Even if it does not create a practical option for large HDD until 2045, the serbight can still affect the future of long -term data storage, just not on the timeline IT projects.
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