CD, DVD and blue ray also fail, just sitting on a spool
Until the surface the media is burned on starts to flake off.
I backup things in two ways a newer HD and DVD-s. But I do use thumb drives and luckily have not been burned yet.
If in the cloud, isnt one just using the same we have all mentioned here?
Have you thought about the simple but very effective high volume thumb drive? No moving parts to fail and they work well as long as you do not misplace it.
thumb drives, sd cards and ssd's all fail at some point. Trust me, I have had several die over the years.
no moving parts doesn't ensure it won't become un-readable.
CD, DVD and blue ray also fail, just sitting on a spool.
