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Yeah, my first thought even before reading the article, was "What about seek times?". Maybe it can be improved, but thinking of web apps specifically, I'm not sure what kind of use case you would have for something that is this slow to access.

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I don't care about seek times if we can have media with orders of magnitude more storage capacity and life expectancy. (of course if you can also have good seek times, it would be icing on the cake)

What kind of data are you trying to store? How much of it? I can’t imagine my life being more than 100 GB and probably much smaller, probably under 20GB.

Scihub, libgen, datasets, etc... as much data as possible.

My personal data is probably less than 1TB at this point, but a way to store it long term would be nice.

This is for archival purposes. Seek times don’t matter for that use case.

Seek times always matter even if they're not the top priority. And especially if we're talking about a storage medium that takes in a whopping 500 TB.

The GP is talking about something interactive like a web app, where a seek time likely would matter. This isn’t intended to be used as such.

Imagine you need to seek 490TB to restore 10TB.

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