Adjective
nearline (not comparable)
(computing) Having a level of availability somewhere between online and offline, typically using removable media.
Examples are: transaction processing databases, internet infrastructure (email, webserver, e-commerce), scientific computing software, and nearline storage management software. Source: Internet
Moreover, SAS offers compatibility with SATA devices, creating a much broader range of options for RAID subsystems together with the existence of nearline SAS (NL-SAS) drives. Source: Internet
SUSE Enterprise Storage is an open source, Ceph-based platform that is ideal for nearline or archival storage that can drastically reduce the total cost of ownership for HPC/AI installations. Source: Internet
Data management policies govern data migration of inactive data from primary disk or NAS to lower cost storage devices such as nearline tape. Source: Internet
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 ( MAID ), are nearline storage. Source: Internet
The formal distinction between online, nearline, and offline storage is: citation * Online storage is immediately available for I/O. Source: Internet