And its awesome until you notice that just the transit fees to restore it work out to roughly $100 a TB. Which even for someone with a small auto loader (10-20

And its awesome until you notice that just the transit fees to restore it work out to roughly $100 a TB. Which even for someone with a small auto loader (10-20 tapes), quickly buys a new tape backup system should they ever have to restore 100TB+. So, if your 100% confident you won't ever have to restore it, its a great deal. I was considering it for my personal backups but the ~3-5k a full restore would cost me is unpleasant on top of the $30-50 a month the storage would cost me. Over a 3 year timeframe that is $1000-1800 just in storage fees. So, maybe I will just buy another USB JBOD... I suspect that over 100T, tape is still much cheaper, especially if the offsite storage is a fire safe at the CTO's house. Once your in the few PB range its a no brainier and actual offsite storage services start to look inexpensive. https://spectralogic.com/wp-content/uploads/white-paper-iron-mountain-vs-amazon-glacier.pdf https://spectralogic.com/wp-content/uploads/white-paper-iron... says that its ~$1 a month per tape to store it at iron mountain, but I'm pretty sure there is a nice volume discount, one of the previous places I worked used them for tape storage and the actual storage bill was a joke in comparison to the pickup fee.