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		mhandley on Aug 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic T... The problem is you don't care about the fastest link on a path - the bottleneck link bandwidth is what matters. The stationwagon isn't the bottleneck; the tape drive is.

rout39574 on Aug 29, 2018 [–]

Streaming, tape compares favorably with HDD TFA suggested twice the speed?. Random access, of course, tape blows. :P

So really, the bottleneck is _mounting_ the tape.

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