Follow-up on my LTO post, and Fujifilm’s news

Last Wednesday I asked if it was time to get into domestic LTO. I reasoned that with the growth in slop-fuelled demand for hard drives and silicon, enterprise tape backups were interesting and potentially viable again, even in a residential or homelab setting. I also not so subtly implied that even if this wasn’t true, I like tinkering with different tech. The response on Mastodon and in email was surprisingly supportive of the idea, acknowledging that its trade-offs were offset by having airgapped backups on a dependable medium that hasn’t seen prices skyrocket; at least to the extent other storage mediums have. (Usually when I talk about any tech at all, a loud chorus will approach me telling me why it’s terrible and Here Be Dragons. I also had two people explain to me what LTO was, despite the fact I explained I had commercial experience with it. I guess some people like explaining things). Less than a week after I posted that, Nick Indge over on Ars Technica caught this Fujifilm…