Idk about “useless”. But the way the article doesn’t seem to want to mention the read/write speed is definitely indicative of some drawbacks to the medium.
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Darkness343@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
All of this is useless because they can’t be used to replace an ssd
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Bongles@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure I still hear of people using tapes for extremely long term but not often accessed storage. This sounds, just from the title, like it could be useful for that.