This delighted me, although I'm not entirely clear on this super harddrive, but I like their ingenuity finding their way around high tariffs. The key takeaway is shown in these excerpts:
Necessity is the mother of invention: Huawei is pairing its supercharged SSD with a 60-year old piece of technology — seemingly because of US export restrictions
SSD-tape hybrid will handle warm and cold data
It’s no secret that Chinese companies are becoming increasingly inventive when it comes to circumventing the challenges caused by the US export tech restrictions....
The site writes: “The MED is a sealed unit presenting a disk-like, block storage interface to the outside world, not a streaming tape interface. Inside the enclosure, there are two separate storage media devices: a solid-state drive with NAND, and a tape system, including a tape motor for moving the tape ribbon, a read-write head, and tape spools.”
...reportedly holds 72TB of data (it’s unclear whether this refers to raw or compressed capacity) and consumes just 10% of the power required by disk drives.