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

[TheBlackAdder]

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.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/video-of-ceramic-storage-system-prototype-surfaces-online-10000tb-cartridges-bombarded-with-laser-rays-could-become-mainstream-by-2030-making-slow-hard-drives-and-tapes-obsolete

Link to video:

https://player.vimeo.com/video/841629751

[bucolic_frolic]

1. How long will civilization keep up all the education and scientific expertise to produce and maintain?

It will all be built by AI and robotics so only three live humans understand what it's doing. When those 3 are gone and all human knowledge is on a handful of ceramic pie plates, we are so vulnerable.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Finally a medium that will outlive me and hold all my stuff.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Oooops, is that a scratch ?

There goes fifty years' worth of records.