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Some industry insider has claimed that it's tape-backed. There's also been speculation that it's actually based on optical media.
by Hamuko 6y ago
Some industry insider has claimed that it's tape-backed. There's also been speculation that it's actually based on optical media.
- londons_explore 6y agoIt's totally backed on "we have loads of hard drives with spare storage capacity but no IO capacity, so sell it off cheap, but make sure it doesn't perform too well or it'll eat into our other products". Nearly all cloud providers have more storage bytes than they have IO (ie. each individual hard drive receives so many read/write requests per second that if they filled the drive all the way to full some read/write requests couldn't be handled and would be unacceptably delayed)