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“Disk is the new tape” has been true for a while and will probably stay true.

SSD also has longer term data loss issues when unpowered. Magnetic disk is still better in that respect too.



Tape is still half the cost per TB, but you have to be storing at least several hundred TBs to break even with the cost of a single tape drive. For two it's certainly well over a petabyte.




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