• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 hours ago

    That sounds absolutely fine to me.

    Compared to an MVME SSD, which is what I have my OS and software installed on, every spinning disk drive is glacially slow. So it really doesn’t make much of a difference if my archive drive is a little bit slower at random R/W than it otherwise would be.

    In fact I wish tape drives weren’t so expensive because I’m pretty sure I’d rather have one of those.

    If you need high R/W performance and huge capacity at the same time (like for editing gigantic high resolution videos) you probably want some kind of RAID array.