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title: "Cold storage"
url: https://postproduction.studio/en/glossary/cold-storage
language: en
description: "Long-term offline archive — typically LTO tapes stored on shelves or in climate-controlled vaults, or cloud archive tiers (Glacier, Deep Archive). Slow..."
updated: 2026-10-25
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# Cold storage

Long-term offline archive — typically LTO tapes stored on shelves or in climate-controlled vaults, or cloud archive tiers (Glacier, Deep Archive). Slow retrieval, lowest cost per TB.

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## Related terms

[LTO (Linear Tape-Open)](https://postproduction.studio/en/glossary/lto)[Nearline storage](https://postproduction.studio/en/glossary/nearline-storage)[Archiving](https://postproduction.studio/en/glossary/archiving)