I don't think it ever went away in larger companies. A few months back I was looking into tape hardware, and I was disappointed to find that the barrier of ent

I don't think it ever went away in larger companies. A few months back I was looking into tape hardware, and I was disappointed to find that the barrier of entry is too high for consumers with only dozens of TBs. Based on my calculations at the time, for my desired data size it ended up cheaper to just buy a bunch of HDDs. How do HDDs compare to tape when it comes to long-term storage? I've read lots of mixed reports.