A tape can be checked much faster than a HDD, because its sequential read/write speed is several times higher than that of a HDD.

However, there is little need to check the tapes, because the likelihood of them developing defects during storage is far less than for HDDs.

Much more important than checking the tapes from time to time is to make multiple copies, i.e. to use at least duplicate tapes that are stored in different places.

Periodic reading is strictly necessary only for SSDs, and it is useful for HDDs, because in both cases their controllers will relocate any corrupted blocks. For tapes it is much less useful. There is more risk to damage the tape during an unnecessary reading, e.g. if the mechanism of the tape drive happens to become defective at exactly that moment, than for the tape to become defective during storage.

The LTO cartridges are quite robust and they are guaranteed for 30 years of storage after you write some data on them.

In the past there have existed badly designed tape cartridges, e.g. the quarter-inch cartridges, where the tape itself did not become defective during storage, but certain parts of the cartridge, i.e. a rubber belt, which was necessary to move the tape, disintegrated after several years of storage. Those have disappeared many years ago.