LTO4 tapes to back up my personal NAS

I still use LTO4 tapes to back up my personal NAS because cloud storage is expensive and slow for photography and video. Tape has saved me a couple of times—once after a ransomware attack on the NAS (external drives and cloud backups were also affected) and once after drive failures when the NAS was dropped.

Restoring from tape took about 5 hours, compared to over two weeks from the cloud, which would have cost $40 for 600GB. LTO9 looks good for bigger setups (18TB per tape), but older drives are common for personal or small business use. Next year, I plan to move my archives to LTO6 if I can find an affordable drive.

The backup server is just a PC with a SAS card and enough power. I thought about portable or shucked hard drives, but tapes are more compact and cheaper—around $25 for an 800GB LTO4.

Who else is still using tape?