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I thought latency was measured in seconds for these?
At 10,000tb, it could have a latency of 5 minutes and it'd probably still be useful for long term storage.
Edit: it's also useful to note that it sounds like these are write-once, read many. That means for consumers, they might eventually replace Blurays, but they probably won't be replacing your hard drive.
Yeah that would be the only useful use case. However I think with even a few seconds of latency I could deal with that for things like video playback since it would quite literally up my storage by a few orders of magnitude.
Yeah it wasn't so long ago that hard drive storage was more expensive than spindles of CD-Rs and that was around the time that internet and torrenting were taking off. People used to burn CDs full of movies to share and make room to download more. In that use case a unit of 700 MB on write once read many storage was useful if cheap.