One thing that worries me about home tape use is dust and cat hair. I've had a DDS4 tape way back, which ended up dying, and that could well be the cause. My h

One thing that worries me about home tape use is dust and cat hair. I've had a DDS4 tape way back, which ended up dying, and that could well be the cause. My house is not going to be as clean as a server room. I've seen tape drives taken apart and there seems to be a worrying lack of concern with any kind of air filtration on the ones I've seen at least. And I don't think it should be all that hard to deal with it. Maybe something like sucking air in through a replaceable filter and exhausting it out of the tape door.