Yup, lots of tape for stuff in cold storage, and then some subset of that on disk spread out over several sites. It's kinda interesting to watch anything by Al

Yup, lots of tape for stuff in cold storage, and then some subset of that on disk spread out over several sites. It's kinda interesting to watch anything by Alberto Pace, the head of storage at CERN to get an understanding of the challenges and constraints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym2am-FumXQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym2am-FumXQ I was basically on the helpdesk for the system for a few years so had to spend a fair amount of time helping people replicate data from one place to another, or from tape onto disk.