At last, something nice to post about. Western Digital buys company developing ceramic hard drive technology.
Ground-breaking ceramic-based data storage outfit Cerabyte has today announced it has received strategic investment from Western Digital, a move it says will accelerate the development of its ceramic data storage tech.
Cerabyte is a German company seeking to revolutionize data storage. It uses ceramic-on-glass material that the company says is good for 5,000 years of data storage.
Not only is Cerabyte's revolutionary tech designed to be essentially permanent, but it could also pave the way for data storage capacities on a scale hitherto unfathomable – Cerabyte says its next-generation active archives combine multiple storage technologies as we head towards the Yottabite era.
They're boasting that they may be able to get the price down to $1 per terabyte, which would be amazing. But to me the really good part is the durability. Bit-rot is the huge problem nobody has an answer for these days. Five thousand year ceramic storage? Sign me up!
