Hard drives go bad more frequently than tape, and don't actually save you any work if you're making multiple redundant encrypted copies. I have 26 terabytes on

Hard drives go bad more frequently than tape, and don't actually save you any work if you're making multiple redundant encrypted copies. I have 26 terabytes on my NAS, so with 2 copies I'd probably use $800 in HDDs? I could swap to a new 10TB HDD every few hours just like a tape, attach group labels just like a tape, it'd have similar speed, and I'd probably write new images to the same HDDs every so often. The word "just" sounds like you think it's less work, but it sounds the same to me. FWIW, I did roll from HDD to HDD for years, so I'm familiar with the concept.