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		Nition on Jan 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL (2014) Could it possibly just be compression on tradtional HDDs? - Cheaper storage because data is heavily compressed - Slow retrieval time due to slow decompression

usefulcat on Jan 16, 2017 [–]

I seriously doubt it. If I have many TB of stuff I need to have saved off site, you can bet the very first thing I'm going to do is compress the hell out of it. So they certainly wouldn't be able to count on compressing it further.

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