It was better than padded cases for physical harddrive BU's. Opps dropped the case and thats a head crash, NO BACKUP FOR YOU! (soup n*zi ref)

We ended up still using sneaker redundancy BU off site and got a fireproof gun safe for an onsite BU to prevent the head crashes. Then we thought we were saved by Jaz... Riiiiiight, like you said the "90's"

Seeing that Amazon just lost a shit ton of data the other day in the Middle East in the "cloud" I can see physical BU's becoming a thing again. For me it never stopped for critical data, also drives are so cheap compared to back then I have BU's of BU's.