- Novodisq claims 230pb frame capacity using patented 144TB SSDs
- Novoblade integrates computation, networks and storage on dense blade servers
- Novodisq promises a 95% lower power compared to conventional matrices
In the recent Flash memory summit, a new name of New Zealand appeared in an attempt to cause waves in the business storage space.
Novodisq presented its Novoblade system, a platform created to combine dense storage, calculate acceleration and network capacity in a compact design.
The Novoblade modules are designed as blade servers, each that offers 576 TB of raw storage built in flash units. The units themselves are based on SSD units of E2 form with capabilities that reach 144TB per device.
How the Novablade is structured
The company says that a 2U enclosure can contain up to 20 modules, which is equivalent to 11.75pb capacity on a single shelf.
Climbing this configuration in a complete 42u rack, Novodisq, projects that storage can increase to 230pb.
Together with the storage figures, Novodisq promotes the Novoblade as a hyperconvergente design that integrates calculation resources directly into each blade.
These include ARM64 nuclei, FPGA resources and optional AI or automatic learning, with networks compatible with 200 Gbps or 400 Gbps Ethernet.
The company positions this as a platform that can replace conventional NAS matrices, with 95% of lower energy consumption. However, such statements are difficult to validate without detailed independent reference points.
While the theoretical capacity seems high, the price of this system raises serious questions.
The company has not announced official figures, but estimates can be made from existing hardware, since a single SSD of 122.88TB currently (August 2025) costs about $ 14,000.
Using that as a reference, and count the 144TB SSD patented with Novoblade, a single blade with four units could already exceed $ 60,000 before considering the additional calculation and the network.
With 20 blades in a 2U enclosure, the total could approach $ 1.2 million. Extending this to a complete 42U shelf with 230 pb of raw storage means that costs would increase much more than $ 2 million.
This positions the Novoblade as an extremely dense solution, but that only highly specialized organizations could justify financially.
On paper, these numbers suggest one of the densest implementations so far described, but practical use and performance are still not tested.
Novodisq describes the Novoblade as a storage server and a convergent computing platform.
You can expose block, file and object interfaces, or integrate into distributed systems such as CEPH or LUSTER.
At the moment, the main players in the storage field continue to focus on the balance capacity with performance.
Therefore, it is still uncertain if Novodisq can provide not only the larger or faster SSD agreements, but also sustainable prices and support.
