Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online -- 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays [View all]

Cerabyte has released a video showcasing the potential of its long-anticipated ceramics-based data storage system that promises to revolutionize how organizations store data on data centers in the future.

In contrast to data usually stored on the best hard drives and the best SSDs of today, Cerabyte wants to use ceramic material, combined with glass, to hold mountains of data. For instance, it wants to build palm-sized cartridges that can store 10,000TB of data.

It does this by arranging layers of a special type of ceramic into a surface that's 300 micrometers thick, on top of a glass base. Data can be written at GBps speeds, with TB/square-centimeter areal densities – much greater than the density of HDDs which only hit 0.02TB/square-centimeter right now.

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