- 5D average of sphotonix optical storage has appeared in the latest installment of Mission Impossible
- A rare feat for a new product, its appearance is essential for the plot of the film
- Like Microsoft Silica, use silica -based material to store up to 360 TB per glass fountain
The Sphotonix storage startup has achieved a role starring the money, starring the money in the Hollywood film of large budget “Impossible mission, the final calculation“Where it ended up being part of the real scenario instead of a disposable and forgettable accessory.
(There are no spoiler alerts) In it, its central product, a 5D optical storage medium is used to store a critical element of the film’s plot, potentially for billions of years.
After having been used to support the complete human genome in January 2025, we know that it can store up to 360 TB in a 5 -inch rectangular glass plate and use a laser -based patented -based patented engraving technology called FEMTOETCH.
That is much more than the largest SSD (the P5-5336 soldigm of 122.88TB) or HDD (36TB models of Seagate or WD) currently on the market, more about how technology works in the promotional video below.
Other exotic storage competitors who want to rival cold storage, file media, such as the LTO tape, include ceramics (Cerabyte), silicon (Microsoft silica), DNA (Biomemory, catalog), optical disc (photonic folio, opera data).
This is a difficult market as it is presented through the disappearance of Sony Legacy 5.5TB media, but experts agree: the rapaz appetite of AI for bytes, at rest or in motion, the dynamics of the ecosystem have changed.
The world market for business information archives worldwide will be more than $ 17 billion by 2031, according to an investigation published by Verified Market Research in 2024.
Sphotonix hopes that by 2028, the world will produce almost 400 zettabytes of data, with thousands of data centers globally engulfing more than 1000TWh of power.
The storage startup was founded on more than 30 years of research by its science director, Professor Kazansky, at the Optolectronics Research Center of the University of Southampton.
I contacted Sphotonix for more information about performance and other related media specifications, as well as any significant marks and time prices.
