I still have an exabyte scsi drive. You can read it with Linux. You just need a suitable SCSI card. tar/cpio all work as expected.

From: "Richard Salz" <rich.salz@gmail.com>
To: "TUHS main list" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2019 5:39:30 PM
Subject: [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte

Historically important he says. The guy had creds. https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1198706617967095809?s=19