- Western Digital invests in Cerabyte to advance permanent ceramic data storage
- Cerabyte goes to exabyte’s scale storage without energy or maintenance requirements
- Pure storage and long -term storage objectives of previously previously backed
We have written about Cerabyte several times before. The Startup is working to solve the problem of long -term data storage taking a sheet of the ancient Egyptians, replacing the chisels and the stone with lasers of femtoseconds and ceramics.
Its system inscribes data on QR code patterns in ceramic nanolayers, a medium that can last thousands of years without the need for energy to preserve stored content.
Cerabyte aims to establish a new level of permanent and sustainable storage in Petabyte at the Exabyte scale. Technology avoids problems such as bit rot and silent corruption, offering an immutable record of the original data.
WD is the last investor
Western Digital is the last company to make a strategic investment in Cerabyte to help accelerate the development of technology.
“We hope to work with Cerabyte to formulate a technological association for the marketing of this technology,” said Shantnu Sharma, director of Corporate Strategy and Development, Western Digital. “Our investment in Cerabyte aligns with our priority to extend the scope of our products even more in cases of using long -term data storage.”
The Cerabyte prototype, built with standard pieces, already offers Megabyte reading and writing speeds for second and Gigabyte scale capacity. The storage is handled through robotic cartridges within the library racks, designed for the compatibility with the infrastructure of the standard data center.
“Our ceramic data storage offers a vital and complementary layer for long -term data storage that guarantees rapid data recovery, often in seconds, unlocking new sources of income,” said Christian Pflaum, co -founder and CEO of Cerabyte. “We are excited to work with Western Digital to define a technological association, feeding our ability to offer permanent storage solutions accessible to scale.”
The company expects to grow from a 1PB Rack pilot at 100PB by 2030, with access times that fall below 10 seconds and the performance greater than 1 GB/s.
Western Digital joins pure storage and VC In-Q-Tele backed by the CIA to invest in the long-term storage vision of Cerabyte.
