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This is for archival purposes. Seek times don’t matter for that use case.

• Hamuko 5y ago
  Seek times always matter even if they're not the top priority. And especially if we're talking about a storage medium that takes in a whopping 500 TB.
  • azinman2 5y ago
    The GP is talking about something interactive like a web app, where a seek time likely would matter. This isn’t intended to be used as such.
    • fomine3 5y ago
      Imagine you need to seek 490TB to restore 10TB.