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Keep your physical media. Don't be Charlie Brown assuming the football will be there every time.
Better yet, digitally back up your physical media in multiple locations because no media lasts forever, especially optical Media.
There are problems with physical medium as well. My father and I enjoy physical CDs, in my opinion they are the best. Yet my father's collection is over 20 years old so disks are degrading. My collection was destroyed during a house break in, they threw them on the floor and stomped on them, fucking hooligans. So I stopped with physical media such as CDs due to this
Long term storage hasnβt improved since tape drives
I heard tape drives might be making a comeback, due to increased storage capacity, like insane capacity if we use today's technology. And a lot of data we have only needs to be stored and not readily available
They already have. Huge SANs like AWS Glacial Storage use them. It lets you store comical amounts of data for like 0.0001β¬ per gb or something crazy, but access times can take up to 24 hours. This is because there are massive archival databanks, think a robotic vending machine full of tapes. Itβs actually incredibly cool technology.
I did know they are already using the technology, so it is so cool for letting me know. Yes some data you do not need to have constant access, like security footage. Maybe 20 years from now a detective asks if you still have footage from that night where the serial nipple pincher first attacked, and boom they solved the mystery and Gotham will be safe again.