Hi, On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 10:34:47AM +1100, George at Clug wrote: > On Friday, 03-01-2025 at 09:57 Michael Stone wrote: > > Spinning disks are slow; 8 hours for 3TB is about 100MB/s and 8h is > > about how much time I'd expect it to take to write a commodity disk that > > size. It becomes really painful on a 24TB drive (8 times as large, 8 > > times as long; > > 24TB drive - WOW - just thinking about that hurts.
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