But, meanwhile we got USB. I'd argue that USB thumbdrives/HDDs will continue to work for another decade; and ext4 will probably survive that, too. Everything I

But, meanwhile we got USB. I'd argue that USB thumbdrives/HDDs will continue to work for another decade; and ext4 will probably survive that, too. Everything I stored on Diskettes, CDs, DVDs, Bluerays were only short-term backups in my opinion; due to the rapidly evergrowing need for more space and Sony trying to push their patented technologies to all markets. I had to buy a drive on eBay to restore backups years later, only to realize that the CDs were totally unreadable due to UV degradation. These days my backup strategy is redundant USB hard drives, with the assumption that USB will continue to be supported longer than the current SATA versions and current disc-based mediums. The only thing that survived all this time were ZIP drives and DVD-RAMs. They are still awesome. But sadly nobody uses them anymore, so access to replacement mediums and drives is a little limited :(