The Facebook open computer definition for "cold storage":
"where data is stored on disk but almost never read again, like legal data or backups of third copies of data — keep on increasing dramatically, there are huge demands for developing some form of cold storage system with the highest capacity and the lowest cost."
"where data is stored on disk but almost never read again, like legal data or backups of third copies of data — keep on increasing dramatically, there are huge demands for developing some form of cold storage system with the highest capacity and the lowest cost."
source: http://www.opencompute.org/projects/storage/