- Novodisq claims 230pb rack capacity using proprietary 144TB SSDS
- Novoblade Integrates Calculation, Network and Storage in Dense Blade Servers
- Novodisq promises 95% lower effect compared to conventional arrays
At the recent flash memory, a new name from New Zealand emerged in an attempt to cause waves in the company’s storage space.
Novodisq presented its Novoblade system, a platform built to combine dense storage, calculate acceleration and network capacity in a compact design.
The Novoblade modules are designed as blade servers, each offering 576TB of raw storage built on flash drive. The drives themselves are based on the E2 form factor SSD units with capacities reaching 144 TB per day. Unit.
How Novoblade is structured
The company says a 2U cabinet can contain up to 20 modules, which corresponds to 11.75 PB capacity in a single shelf.
Management of this configuration across a whole 42U -rack projects Novodisq that storage can rise to 230pb.
Alongside the storage figures, Novodisq promotes Novoblade as a hyper -converged design that integrates calculates resources directly into each magazine.
These include Arm64 kernels, FPGA resources and optional AI or machine learning engines with networks supported by 200 Gbps or 400 Gbps ethernet.
The company positions this as a platform that can replace conventional NAS -arrays with up to 95% lower energy consumption. However, such claims are difficult to validate without detailed independent benchmarks.
While the theoretical capacity occurs high, the price of such a system raises serious questions.
The company has not announced official figures, but estimates can be made from existing hardware as a single 122.88TB SSD currently (August 2025) costs close to $ 14,000.
Using it as a reference and accounting for Novoblades Proprietary 144TB SSDs, a single magazine with four drives could already exceed $ 60,000 before considering added calculation and network.
With 20 blades in a 2U cabinet, the total amount could approach $ 1.2 million. Expanding this to a full 42U rack with 230pb raw storage means cost would increase well over $ 2 million.
This positions Novoblades as an extremely close solution, but one that only highly specialized organizations could justify financially.
On paper, these numbers suggest one of the closest implementations yet described but practical use and performance remains untested.
Novodisq describes Novoblade as both a storage server and a converged computer platform.
It can postpone blocking, file and object interfaces or integrating into distributed systems such as CEPH or Luster.
Currently, larger players in the storage field focus on balancing capacity with performance.
Therefore, it is still uncertain whether Novodisq can not only provide the biggest or fastest SSD events, but also sustainable pricing and support.
