You have a pretty niche (but interesting!) use case. An LTO-5 Tape can store 1.5 Terabytes Raw [1] - Call it 2 Terabytes with a bit of compression (your Video probably doesn't losslessly compress at 2:1). 60 Terabytes requires 30 Tapes - around $15/month to store at Iron Mountain. [2] . The Glacier Charge for 60 Terabytes is $600/month vs $15/month for Tape Storage.
Also - upload/recovery times are problematic when you are talking 10s of terabytes. Right now, the equation is in favor of archiving tapes at that level (Even presuming you store multiple copies for redundancy/safety).
Glacier is for the people wanting to archive in the sub-ten terabyte range - they can avoid the hassle/cost of purchasing tape drives, tapes, software - and just have their online archive.
The needle will move - in 10 years Glacier might make sense for people wanting to store sub 100 Terabytes, and tapes will be for the multi-petabyte people.
Also - upload/recovery times are problematic when you are talking 10s of terabytes. Right now, the equation is in favor of archiving tapes at that level (Even presuming you store multiple copies for redundancy/safety).
Glacier is for the people wanting to archive in the sub-ten terabyte range - they can avoid the hassle/cost of purchasing tape drives, tapes, software - and just have their online archive.
The needle will move - in 10 years Glacier might make sense for people wanting to store sub 100 Terabytes, and tapes will be for the multi-petabyte people.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
[2] http://www.ironmountain.com/Solutions/~/media/9F17511FA1A741...