I don’t think this would bother the average enterprise in the least. We used to have entire rooms dedicated to tape libraries that housed dozens of tape drives and thousands of tapes each.
The read and write speed are absolutely critical but having to utilize multiple devices isn’t anything new at all.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/lto_2024_tape_shipmen...
Unless something is wrong with these numbers, it's simple enough to do rough math to get tape count and compare with historical numbers.
Claims of 5.7 or 5.8 million drives over the lifetime of the format can also be compared to older data to see a slowdown.
I more meant we no longer have room sized libraries unless the cloud providers have commissioned something custom and not available to the public. I believe the last installed powderhorn I’m aware of was decommissioned almost a decade ago now.
https://www.iscgroupllc.com/products/storagetek/storagetek-p...