- Sphotonix’s 5D Optical Storage Media has appeared on the latest rate of Mission Impossible
- A rare feat for a new product, its appearance is central to the film plot
- Like Microsoft Silica, it uses silica -based material to store up to 360 TB per day. Glass dish
Storage Start Sphotonix has landed a money-can-Kun purchase starring the Big-Budget Hollywood movie “Mission Impossible, the final calculation“Where it ended up being part of the actual scenario rather than a disposable, forgetful plug.
(No spoiler alarms) In it, it is used its core product, a 5D optic storage media to store a critical element of the film plot, potentially for billions of years.
After being used to back up the full human genome in January 2025, we know that it can save up to 360TB on a 5-inch rectangular glass dish and use a proprietary laser-based nano-derling technology called Femtoetch.
It is far more than the largest SSD (122.88TB SOLIDEM P5-5336) or HDD (36TB models from Seagate or WD) currently on the market-more about how the technology works in promotional video below.
Other exotic storage competitors who want to compete with cold storage, filing media such as LTO tape include ceramics (cerabyte), silicon (Microsoft Silica), DNA (Biomemory, Catalog), Optical Disc (Folio Photonics, Optera Data).
This is a tough market that witnesses through Sony’s Legacy 5.5TB ODA media, but experts agree: The violent appetite at AI for bytes, at rest or on the move, has changed the dynamics of the ecosystem.
Worldwide Enterprise Information Archiving Market will balloon to more than $ 17 billion in 2031, according to research published by Verified Market Research in 2024.
Sphotonix expects the world by 2028 to produce nearly 400 Zettabyte data, with thousands of data centers that are globally gabbling more than 1000TWh power.
Storage start was founded on over 30 years of research by his Chief Science Officer, Prof. Kazansky, at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Center.
I reached out to Sphotonix to find out more about the benefit and other related specifications in the media as well as any meaningful time frames and prices.
