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Just a reminder: These massive drives are really more a "budget" version of a proper tape backup system. The fundamental physics of a spinning disc mean that these aren't a good solution for rapid seeking of specific sectors to read and write and so forth.
So a decent choice for the big machine you backup all your VMs to in a corporate environment. Not a great solution for all the anime you totally legally obtained on Yahoo.
Not sure if the general advice has changed, but you are still looking for a sweet spot in the 8-12 TB range for a home NAS where you expect to regularly access and update a large number of small files rather than a few massive ones.
honestly curious, why the hell was this downvoted? I work in this space and I thought this was still the generally accepted advice?
I used to swap tape cassettes out at a large hospital every night. If you could find some used hardware and had the technical expertise to administer it you could absolutely use tape backups. IIRC the cassettes themselves were dirt cheap, it was the big tape deck and some of the accessories that got really pricy. Probably not worth it unless it fits your specific situation.