I don't trust any particular media to remain available or usable long term, either due to degradation or hardware availability. BD in particular has a very unce

I don't trust any particular media to remain available or usable long term, either due to degradation or hardware availability. BD in particular has a very uncertain future. I had to read a 20 year old Ultra320 HDD last weekend, and I had to dust off an old Sun workstation to do that. I've been using LTO tape for many years, trailing a few generations for cost reasons. Every couple of years, I read the data from my old tapes and migrate it to new tapes of the next generation, as the cost comes down. I only have about 500GB of stuff that I particularly want to keep, mostly photographs and very short videos, along with copies of various personal documents that would be tiresome to replace. The 1.5TB provided by LTO5 is more than plenty for my own needs.