LTO can be great. But if you aren't familiar with modern tape, then two things to carefully note: - Inter-generation compatibility has been going downhill rec

LTO can be great. But if you aren't familiar with modern tape, then two things to carefully note: - Inter-generation compatibility has been going downhill recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Compatibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Compatibility - Vendor-quoted capacities often include some optimistic assumptions about data compression