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Decent for tape, or decent in general?
Tape sequential throughput is higher than HDD. It's the latency/seek time that gets you. But for a recovery scenario, you can hopefully just do a giant sequential scan.
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I don't know, SSDs have already replaced HDDs in consumer systems to a far greater extent than any of the things you've listed.
Aren't most cloud computing currently almost completely HDDs at this point? At least, this is the impression that I get from looking at the case of Backblaze (which is probably the cloud storage center with the most public statistics on what they use). So far, the usage of SSDs is fairly minimal on the storage side, although I believe they are used at Backblaze some for operations such as bootup and caching. ( https:…
Lots of VPS and similar services offer SSD storage now, and I expect it to grow. The one I use didn't even a non-SSD option, and it was a pretty cheap provider.
SSDs offer orders of magnitude better random IO, I imagine that allows the hosting company to have more clients per storage unit, lowering the effective cost of SSDs.
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1tb Samsung 860 Evo is more than 850€ in my country...
No, it isn't. That's about 6x the price in the US and at least 5x the price in Australia. No combination of VAT and shipping fees can account for that big of a discrepancy. You're probably just looking at a retailer that has inflated the price while they're out of stock. Try getting a quote from someone who has stock in your country ready to ship.