To add: LTO speeds are currently in the 300MB/s range: if you want > TB size storage you likely don't want ~100MB/s for regular use. I work on systems where we

To add: LTO speeds are currently in the 300MB/s range: if you want > TB size storage you likely don't want ~100MB/s for regular use. I work on systems where we are regularly writing multiple tapes of 5+ TB and if you get only 100MB/s you're waiting hours and if something fails or gets stuck you can be thrown off schedule by more than a day very quickly. Even at the current 300MB/s speeds it's very slow. If personal archival or even small-scale archival is your interest getting network storage is probably easier, faster and cheaper. What's more, is that you have to keep some kind of inventory of your tapes so you know where to find data if you ever need it. Depending on the size of your collection you can be looking for even more expensive equipment to manage the archive of your archives.