You archive 50 LTO-5 tapes containing video dailies. ADC Solution: Index each tape offline. When a producer asks for "all footage shot on June 3rd in Tokyo," search the ADC catalog across all 50 tapes. The result tells you exactly which tape number to load.
If you have large archives on older spinning hard drives (HDDs), spinning them up to search for a file is slow and inefficient. It creates wear and tear on the hardware. An advanced disk catalog allows you to browse the file structure of a drive without ever spinning it up, because the data is already in the database. advanced disk catalog