- Western Digital invests in Cerabyte to promote permanent ceramic data storage
- Cerabyte goals
- Clean storage and in Q-Tel supported former Cerabyte’s long-term storage target
We have written about Cerabyte a number of times in the past. The startup is working to solve the problem of prolonged data storage by taking a leaf from the ancient Egyptians, replacing chisels and stones with fifty -pitchers and ceramics.
Its system enrolled data in QR code-like patterns on ceramic nanolag, a medium that may last thousands of years without needing power to preserve the stored content.
Cerabyte aims to establish a new level of permanent, sustainable retabyte storage for exabyte scale. The technology avoids problems such as bitrot and silent corruption and offers an unchanging registration of the original data.
WD is the latest investor
Western Digital is the latest company that makes a strategic investment in cerabytes to help speed up technology’s development.
“We look forward to working with cerabytes to formulate a technology partnership for commercialization of this technology,” said Shantnu Sharma, Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer, Western Digital. “Our investment in cerabytes is in line with our priority of extending the range of our products to long -term data storage cases.”
Cerabyte’s prototype, built with standard parts, already delivers megabyte-per-second reading and writing speeds and gigabyte-scale capacity. Storage is handled via robotic cartridges inside library racks, designed for compatibility with standard data center infrastructure.
“Our ceramic data storage offers an important, complementary long -term data storage layer that ensures fast dating – often within seconds – to unlock new revenue streams,” said Christian Pflaum, co -founder and CEO of Cerabyte. “We are pleased to work with Western Digital to define a technology partnership, which burns our ability to provide available permanent storage solutions on scale.”
The company expects to grow from a 1PB rackpilot to 100pb in 2030, with access times falls less than 10 seconds and flow over 1 GB/s.
Western Digital joins Pure Storage, and the CIA-backed in-Q-Tel VC in investment in Cerabyte’s long-term storage vision.
