@SiteRelEnby also over the next few years we're intending to accumulate, like, web scrapes and things of similar size, and even just the transfer cost for that would be prohibitive, so that's why we've been looking into very-high-volume removable media for our cold storage.
@SiteRelEnby but yeah tier 1 is definitely going to be a RAID connected by SAN to our servers that we're going to have at some point, heh :)