I think that's a bit past hyperbole, that's 200 end-to-end "wraps" per tape cartridge. A tape drive is (in theory) a LOT more durable, my drive has an official

I think that's a bit past hyperbole, that's 200 end-to-end "wraps" per tape cartridge. A tape drive is (in theory) a LOT more durable, my drive has an official MTF of 250,000 hours at a 100% duty cycle. That said, at least for my purposes, using one such SSD drive as a 5+ year "consumable" would work just fine, and the price for the Intel 335 is just fine. (On the third hand, since all my system "disks" are LSI RAID 1 2 disk mirrors, I had all the infrastructure to add a 3rd drive, and I trusted Seagate enterprise SAS drives more than I trusted SSDs of that class 3 years ago (not that the latter were big and durable enough back then, unless perhaps you went to the $$$$$$ enterprise level of SSDs drives), I use the drive for some other backup systems, like sending my most important data to rsync.net using rsyncrypto, so I need some speedy disk to disk action. When I do a major system refresh in 2+ years I'll seriously consider SSDs, or if I have to replace my LTO-4 drive before then and need to seriously look at LTO-5 drives and media; I just passed the 2 LTO-4 tapes per monthly full backup threshold....)