Any reason to avoid HP LTO-6 FiberChannel tape drive?

Seems to be HP LTO6 USD3
Would it work fine with Emulex LPE12002 Dual-Port 8GB Fibre Channel HBA?

Never used an LTO drive, so I don’t really know what to expect, but I’ve been pretty starved of shelf-cold worhn(write once read hopefully never) storage for backup drive mirrors, archiving old abandonware and dead format softwares, bits and pieces of webpages and multimedia while the internet collapses around us, etc.

It’s pricey, but slightly cheaper than spinning rust at capacity, incl the drive and a certain number of tapes, and increases in value the more tapes I buy for shelf-storage. Just not really sure on compatibility or software availability, such as firmware blobs or drivers via aur.

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