Oh I do remember, but would you trust solid state devices.... had quite a few usb sticks failed/corrupted and I do not intend to have a drawer full of usb sticks for the amount of existing software I have
I do have back ups on external hard drives.
Some people embrace changes enthusiastically, others don't!!!
The humble DVD will be around for quite a while....
never heard of DVD rot then?
I've got no end of CD's and DVDs that can no longer be read, either the disk is scratched, or has been left in the sunshine and is burned, or worst the foil layer physically de-laminates from the plastic layer.
there really is no long term solution for storage, even punch cards rot/rust/degrade
magnetic media demagnetises.
flash media de charges.
metal film media (DVD/CD) de-laminates.