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

IT Storage deals with the storage of your data (customer list, sales orders, customer orders, product photos from 20 years ago, etc). Storing data costs money. It can be "slow & cheap" or "fast & expensive".  Often used data (customer list, recent customer transactions) should be fast, but old data (sales orders from five years ago, 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"

Why are tape drives the cheapest? Because they are mechanical/physical, and 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/