15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620

Re:15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620 by gamegoblin on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @03:45PM (#18340628)

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.

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Re:15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620 by astrodust on Thursday November 01, 2018 @01:45PM (#18356489)

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

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