[WalterBright]

30 years now in a more organized fashion, 40 years if you count disorganized.

Some of my older drives are no longer recognized by the drivers anymore.

I've had several drives completely fail, and one I dropped that never worked again.

I've used CDROMS, DVD-Rs, zip drives, and even cartridge tape for a while, but the hard drives work the best. I still have the cartridge tapes, but no way to read them anymore. Same with zip disks, can no longer read them.

[dwebfan]

why not using AWS and Google deep archive storage? seems cheap enough. Keep the data at home, then use cloud deep archive storage as backup. No?

[WalterBright]

I did use AWS for a while as a backup, but lost interest in it.