You are in luck if you have been waiting for someone to disrupt the market. The startup is trying to take over the market for archival storage.
"Our talented engineering team has pioneered a fresh approach to optical storage that overcomes historical constraints and puts unheard of cost, cybersecurity and sustainable benefits within reach," Santamaria said. The trajectory of archive storage is poised to change with these advantages.
Folio claims to offer a high-performing optical alternative to tapes, hard disks, and DNA storage. It is said that one of their oddly-shaped, multi-layer cartridges can fit 100 terabytes of data, or three times the storage of the densest Blu-ray disk. Impressive.
The cartridge has many optical layers.
Santamaria explained in a different TechRadar interview that traditional discs have been in use for 20 years. A 16 layer double sided disc will be our first product.
It's not too bad to say that the product is "impervious" to damage from radiation or saltwater, but it would make the product the superman of all time.
You would be forgiven if this feels old. Since the dawn of the Streaming Era and the cloud, optical storage has gone the way of the dinosaur. Tapes, hard disks, and DNA are preferred by enterprise-scale archives.
It's all in all? A number of operations could benefit from the product if it is true.
Santamaria told Forbes that they are writing to an eight-layer disc after starting to write to a five- and six-layer disc. A lot of people have failed in front of us and this is what people said we couldn't do.
It's anyone's guess. Maybe we'll get a new gaming console that's compatible with the old ones.
It's set to rival tapes, hard drives, and DNA.
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