In this day &amp; age, why on earth would you want tape?<div><br></div><div>Hard disks, esp usb ones are so cheap!  You can buy 1TB disks for around $100 USD each.... and keep them in rotation.</div><div><br></div><div>Tapes break, they are SEQUENTIAL and SLOW.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve backed up to tape in over 5+ years...</div><div><br></div><div>The floppy tapes really were terrible, I had a few and eventually they become unusable... Not to mention they end up eating 100% of the cpu when they do their thing, so the machine is unusable.  And the horror stories I have of how these tapes take HOURS to report some basic failure, but people assume they have good backups....</div>
<div><br></div><div>It&#39;s really hard to tell people that have been &#39;backing up&#39; for years that because they didn&#39;t format the tape, they have nothing...  Although it took 2-3 hours for the software to tell them that....</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is a fundamental reason you don&#39;t see these things anymore, not to mention tapes just haven&#39;t been able to keep up with hard disk sizes...</div>