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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

This is for cold and archival storage right?

I couldn't imagine seek times on any disk that large. Or rebuild times....yikes.

[โ€“] WolfLink 6 points 4 days ago

Random access times are probably similar to smaller drives but writing the whole drive is going to be slow

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