Tape drives allow large companies as well as end users to backup large amounts of data.
Tape drives are capable of backing up a couple hundred megabytes to several gigabytes of information without having to spend large sums of money on disks. Generally most people find it difficult to backup information therefore never backup their information. Tape Drives software is generally easy to use and can usually be ran without supervision. While Tape Drives are cost efficient and easy to use one major disadvantage Tape Drives have is the speed which they backup and recover information. Tape drives are Sequential access devices, which means to read any data on the Tape Drive, the Tape Drive must read all preceding data.