About the same time, I had a tape drive for the same purpose. It wasn't used much, but was a nice backup. At the time, it was the only cost effective way to bac

About the same time, I had a tape drive for the same purpose. It wasn't used much, but was a nice backup. At the time, it was the only cost effective way to backup a PC. Now, drives and cloud storage are cheap enough that tape inly has an advantage when storing/backing up "really big data". My old university has a large distributed tape system for long term storage on the hundreds of petabytes scale.