Mish Mash of IT Storge and On-Demand -> Human On-Demand Deep Storage

IT Storage deals with the storage of your data (customer list, photos from 20 years ago, etc). Storing data costs money. It can be "slow & cheap" or "fast & expensive".  Often used data (customer list) should be fast, but old data (pictures you took 20 years ago) can be slower. Here is a chart:

 

Storage Hierarchy - SSD (solid state drive) is "fast & expensive", where as tape is "slow & cheap"

What are tape drives the cheapest? Because they are the slowest!  Tape drives are usually buried in a warehouse of a third party archival vendor (you don't store the data in your own building). Retrieving data from a tape archive will have long latency (time between asking for the data and receiving the data). But that's ok because you are not asking for critical data.

 

A robot is deployed to find and retrieve the tape. A very long process. But cheap!

Wedding dress - do you really need to store it in expensive local storage?

Applying IT storage hierarchy to home storage.

Why have store a wedding dress in your precious closet space (akin to SSD)?

Solution: https://www.beomni.com/