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LSI 2008 or 2308 (PCIe 3.0) with IT-mode firmware are good and cheap adapters for LTO. Card's chip will run hot though, so make sure you get a slight air breeze towards it to cool it. Really any fan like 92mm 800rpm within 10cm distance is good enough.

LTFS seems dead and tar will not nearly extract all possible good stuff from LTO technology.

Plug: I repackaged the open-source Bareos tape software for Arch Linux a couple of days ago. Here are some screenshots of the web interface to give an idea:

https://seitics.de/files/bareos/screenshots/

One up in the tree are AUR build files and quite a few moderately complex new examples, covering scripting to run ZFS snaphot create/delete around jobs, how to turn on/off external tape units using a USB box to cut down on power and noise (involves drilling a hole on the backside of your formerly 2000 USD drive!), how to write disaster recovery files to tape as well, in case that's all you got left, etc. Software is AGPL3, being a Bacula fork, my contributions here are CC0. Been running it on Arch since around 2017 with multiple LTO drives.