100% Its also the software to run the blasted thing as well. As soon as you get into tape shit get's enterprise-y real quick. There are opensource tools to man

100% Its also the software to run the blasted thing as well. As soon as you get into tape shit get's enterprise-y real quick. There are opensource tools to manage tape collections, but its not fun. LTO tape libraries are fairly cheap to pick up second hand, its the cost of getting the newer drives that hurts.