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* Offline storage is not immediately available, and requires some human intervention to become online.
 
For example, always-on spinning hard disk drives are online storage, while spinning drives that spin down automatically, such as in massive arrays of idle disks ([[Non-RAID drive architectures#MAID|MAID]]), are nearline storage. Removable media such as [[tape cartridgescartridge]]s that can be automatically loaded, as in [[tape libraries]], are nearline storage, while tape cartridges that must be manually loaded are offline storage.
 
=== Off-line storage ===