Assuming you can read/write at 512 MB/s, it would take 24-days to read/write a full Petabyte.
Despite the long time to read/write, any situation where capacity is king (aka: any Tape-drive solution today), probably benefits from something like this.
This isn't a solution where you backup / restore from per se, but instead provide dozens of backups to (and probably only restore once from). Every day, you backup up to 42TBs of data (512MBps going full tilt for all 24-hours).
Then, when your backups fail, or someone asks for data from 3 weeks ago, you rewind the tape and grab that data. Crazy that this would all fit on one tape potentially.
Despite the long time to read/write, any situation where capacity is king (aka: any Tape-drive solution today), probably benefits from something like this.
This isn't a solution where you backup / restore from per se, but instead provide dozens of backups to (and probably only restore once from). Every day, you backup up to 42TBs of data (512MBps going full tilt for all 24-hours).
Then, when your backups fail, or someone asks for data from 3 weeks ago, you rewind the tape and grab that data. Crazy that this would all fit on one tape potentially.