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I suspect the speed is going to kill this idea. But even at 20 year old mechanical hard drive speeds, there should be some use for this for backup.
by fooker 8y ago
I suspect the speed is going to kill this idea.
But even at 20 year old mechanical hard drive speeds, there should be some use for this for backup.
- smueller1234 8y agoActually, that's highly doubtful. A backup solution will have to be able to actually restore a meaningful fraction of the stored data to be useful. Worse yet, if seeking is expensive, even smallish but scattered amounts of data can be problematic. Tapes suffer from that big time. They've grown in storage space, comparable to hard drives, but since it's normal to have libraries with many tapes per drive, there's severe practical utility limits even for backups.