[tobsterius]

I administer a very very large tape library on a daily basis, with roughly 30pb of video in our backups. LTO tape is just simply more economical when you're at that amount of data. We looked into replacing it with object storage but the cost was more than double than it was to buy a LTO-9 tape library and a fast spinning disk storage pool for nearline archives than it was to go with the object storage solution.

[loeg]

My employer found tape non-economical, at scale at least that large. YMMV.

[kqr]

Yeah, "more than double" seems like a result that could easily be reversed with slightly different assumptions.