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360TB x 500Mb/s write == 73 days to write
https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/data-transfer
Thats a long write time. Also, I have to assume that most of the read/write hardware can't live that long, so that's all a bit theoretical. They'll stop producing the hardware shortly after selling all the discs.
I'm sure this is most likely for archival purposes and not for general use.
Of course, but that is still a very long time.