Archival grade optical disks have an expected life of 100 years in archival conditions. The cloud has a very low bus factor. Miss a payment and the data is gon

Archival grade optical disks have an expected life of 100 years in archival conditions. The cloud has a very low bus factor. Miss a payment and the data is gone. It provides high availability but low permanence and requires active management. It is inherently a poor archival medium. “Tape” is a cluster of incompatible specifications and implementations. I know you don’t mean Quic 40, but that’s tape and about the last system that sold to regular computer users in big box retailers.