One-page printable guide: the four storage tiers at a glance (access speed, how often read, on-prem media, cloud class, relative $/TB), the cost-per-terabyte table, the lifecycle-policy recipe (transition + expiration ages), the worked 100 TB / 90-day tiered-vs-flat example, the three retrieval-cost traps (retrieval fees, minimum durations, never write straight to archive), and a blank per-tier mapping worksheet.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This guide compares four storage tiers, gives the lifecycle policy recipe and flags the three retrieval-cost traps for surveillance footage. Our seven-volume handbook covers the stack around storage: Volume 1 on codecs and bitrates that set how much you store, Volume 6 on search over archived video, and Volume 7 on serving and cost. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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