SCSI IS NOT witchcraft. There are FUNDAMENTAL TECHNICAL REASONS that it’s occasionally necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain.
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That’s one of them new fangled ultra-scsi things 
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HA! Well excuuuuseee me for posting a slightly less ancient example 
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i did some research on this a while back, hope it helps
basically tapes are more durable than hdd for storing the data. so that shouldn’t be a worry.
from what i gather, tapes is mostly to archive your data as backups for when you need it. Not for constantly going back and forth between your nas and tapes constantly on a regular basis.
i read u’d have to be backing up something like 50tb or more for it to be worth the investment.
anyway i don’t use tapes but was doing research on them if i could add it to my homelab. currently i’m just using another nas with equal amount of drives/capacity to do a 1:1 backup
LTO5 is about 130-150 MB/s
another thing about lto tapes, this could be one way to make your offsite backups. doesn’t take up any resources, just some space to place them in storage at (securely). then this could be your offsite backup for when you need it.
Maybe I should try that to get my supposedly “hot-swap SCSI terminators” to actually work as advertised. Iä Shub-Niggurath!
(Of course, the standard-defying devices are now stored in a box… somewhere. So the goat can reasonably hope to die of old age before I get my hands back on these things.)
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” 
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