In case you missed it in the article, the transfer speeds are mentioned just two paragraphs prior to the one you cited:
Over the next three to four years, Kazansky said, SPhotonix aims to improve the data transfer speed of its technology from a write time of 4 megabytes per second (MBps) and read time of 30 MBps to a read/write speed of 500 MBps, which would be competitive with archival tape backup systems.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 days ago
If it's slow, then it's the central backup and you use anything else for regular use. Just having it as a fallback for recovery would be huge.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ll have a crystal collection that’s actually useful
Jerkface@piefed.social 1 day ago
Archer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Stargate SG-1 was ahead of its time with crystals
yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We desperately need a non-magnetic storage for obvious reasons … But making a new thing is freakish difficult.