With a disk archive solution, you can easily get older data off primary storage with a simple manual move of that data. Users don’t have to know where the old data is because the movers handle the linkage. Moving data to a file system is well within the scope of most IT professionals. With tape, you have to manage a robot and a tape library, but with disk archive is the key enabler of manual moves. George Crump is founder of Storage Switzerland, an analyst firm focused on virtualization and storage marketplaces.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/saving-storage-dollars—-manual-moves