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		a012 on Oct 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar D... AFAIK new generation of tape has decent read-write speeds.

astrodust on Oct 30, 2018 [–]

Decent for tape, or decent in general?

gamegoblin on Oct 30, 2018 | [–]

Tape sequential throughput is higher than HDD. It's the latency/seek time that gets you. But for a recovery scenario, you can hopefully just do a giant sequential scan.

astrodust on Nov 1, 2018 | | [–]

Obviously. I mean more like what's the recovery time from tape vs. cheap HDD array?

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