There used to be less expensive consumer-oriented tape drives (floppy-based QIC, various parallel port drives, VXA, an DDS/DAT). That segment of the market has

There used to be less expensive consumer-oriented tape drives (floppy-based QIC, various parallel port drives, VXA, an DDS/DAT). That segment of the market has been subsumed by backup services, USB-based solid state or hard disk-based storage, and writable optical media.