LTO drives are pretty cost effective for huge archivals, but given the recent developments with everything being so expensive.

Would you be interested in a miniaturized format of LTO?

Something like a Data8 cartridge, in a shell with magent protection, so you can have a singular terabyte or less in a safe and portable size.

I could imagine it running in two modes, fast or slow, with varying storage capacities, based on use case. Maybe 256 MBps slow, and 512MBps fast, just throwing a number out there.

I can imagine some use cases:

1. PS6 physical games (as installation disks)
2. Backup format for power users (instead of a full fledged LTO drive)
3. Recording equipment (music, video)
4. Became you like the noise
5. Because you want to have cassette futurism
6. Physical game ownership

Edit 1: Just learned that Accelis LTO is exactly what I imagine and was abandoned by the LTO foundation. ☹️