Hard disk drives will last even less. The lubrication will dry up and the disk will seize way before the 25 year mark.
Bluray is a fine back up media, I use them for stuff on my NAS that I cannot lose like precious pictures of family and friends. Not all of us live on am abandoned salt mine with perfect temperature and humidity for long term tape storage.
Hard disk drives will last even less. The lubrication will dry up and the disk will seize way before the 25 year mark.
That’s what you have redundancies and backups
How long are SD and microSD cards expected to last? Asking because I have a dozen of them lying around
Or… you could buy multiple copies of the Blu-Ray so that if one copy fails, you’ll always have backup Barbies at the ready.
The physical discs degrade overtime. Getting 10 copies now won’t stop that, even if one might outlast another for a bit.