4 ms·

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.