Well, there used to be. The early QIC drives that hooked up to a FDC connector like the 3.5" were pretty ubiquitous in the prosumer world. They eventually transitioned to better tapes/standards, but all worked well and even Windows eventually had native support (via Microsoft Backup). I restored my files off of these tapes 25 years after recording them, so I'm grateful they existed at the right moment in time when drives and floppies would have otherwise failed me. I naively assumed in modern times LTO must be dirt cheap due to decades of competition, but it never came to be.

It would be great if someone could blog about the reverse engineering of such a tape drive here.