The article briefly mentions HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) hard drives. Seagate has been shipping them since 2020 to some customers. Seagate's roadmap is 120TB drives in 2030.
If you are a business then tape is great. But as a consumer with around 50TB of data the problem is that current generation LTO tape drives are in the over $3,000 range. The tapes are reasonably priced but the drive cost is so high that you can buy about 200TB of hard drives for the cost of just the tape drive.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16544/seagates-roadmap-120-tb...
If you are a business then tape is great. But as a consumer with around 50TB of data the problem is that current generation LTO tape drives are in the over $3,000 range. The tapes are reasonably priced but the drive cost is so high that you can buy about 200TB of hard drives for the cost of just the tape drive.