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In today’s digital age, data storage is more important than ever. With businesses and individuals constantly generating and accumulating data, the need for a reliable and long-term storage solution is crucial. Cerabyte has emerged as a startup that offers a groundbreaking solution – ceramic nanolayers, providing low-cost, highly resilient data storage with a virtually unlimited lifespan.
Cerabyte’s technology is a modern take on the ancient Egyptian practice of chiseling hieroglyphs into rock. Although it’s not yet widely available, the company has successfully transformed its proof of concept into a fully operational terabyte data storage system using commercial off-the-shelf components.
The demo system consists of a read rack and multiple library racks. The storage media is a thin, square glass sheet with a nanoscale dark ceramic layer stored in cartridges within a robotic library.
How it works
When writing data, the cartridge is moved from a library rack to the write/read rack. Data is inscribed onto the glass sheet using a femtosecond laser pulse to create holes or spaces in the ceramic layer, representing binary ones and zeros. Once written, the data carrier is returned to the library for safekeeping.
Cerabyte assures that data stored in this way remains safe and accessible within a wide temperature range, even in corrosive or acidic atmospheres, and is impervious to radiation and electromagnetic interference.
While the system may not compete with modern storage methods, Cerabyte is confident that it has the potential to become the future standard for sustainable long-term data storage, thanks to its cost-effective and easily scalable technology
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