Drive availability is the real downside of tape. You have to rotate tape libraries to the new media every few generations to avoid getting stuck-- LTO drives ca

Drive availability is the real downside of tape. You have to rotate tape libraries to the new media every few generations to avoid getting stuck-- LTO drives can only read the two previous generations of tape. This is easy enough to do for tape libraries where you have robots to manage everything, but really dampens the effectiveness for personal backups.