They are writable and readable by most modern standard drives.
The claims I generally see is 100 years for standard storage, 1000 years for archival storage.
Nowadays on Linux you can very easily mount LTO tapes like any other drive using LTFS, so you don’t have to become some hyper-expert with tar.
Sorry for the low-denominator comment.
userbinator•1h ago
At the rate things are going, that might just be enough to hold a Windows with Copilot installer. /s