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Tape is not great for things you actually want to access like media
Yes, but it's great for your emergency backup copy of media.
My thought process is that in the case of media I’m not accessing the same files over and over, at least not for most of the files. For a media archive it would make sense, to me at least. I’m not familiar with modern tape storage, I’m sure there’s many good reasons why this isn’t done (yet?).
Would be good for self hosted offsite backups too I’d imagine.
You don’t get fast random access. So you have to read the whole tape if it’s near the end.