My reading of the abstract was that the “initial 10 PB systems” would be racks. You can build or buy a 10PB rack today, based on conventional HDDs. So these cer

My reading of the abstract was that the “initial 10 PB systems” would be racks. You can build or buy a 10PB rack today, based on conventional HDDs. So these ceramic cartridges would have similar density to existing HDDs, and presumably stuffing a lot of them into a rack brings the opportunity for some I/O parallelism. The extraordinary claim here is that the technology can scale by 10x over 5 years, and then also be applied to tape, all while being much cheaper. And you know what they say about extraordinary claims…