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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.

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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

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How long are SD and microSD cards expected to last? Asking because I have a dozen of them lying around

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I don’t have an exact time span but personally I wouldn’t trust them as anything more than temporary device storage, they randomly die often

Cheap, low quality flash, poorer QC, etc

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