People said floppy disks wouldn't last 30 years too. Yet, I've got some C64 disks that are approaching that age quickly. While I'm sure there is some corruption, most of them still work just fine.
If I was to store on magnetic media, I'd do it in a way that allows for some data loss (like usenet does with .par2 files). If you can stand to lose some of it, just pad it with enough redundancy for recovery and you'll be fine.
> People said floppy disks wouldn't last 30 years too. Yet, I've got some C64 disks that are approaching that age quickly. While I'm sure there is some corruption, most of them still work just fine.
I think that this is luck; I found a batch of 8-year-old floppies a few years ago, and more than 2/3 of them were unreadable.
If I was to store on magnetic media, I'd do it in a way that allows for some data loss (like usenet does with .par2 files). If you can stand to lose some of it, just pad it with enough redundancy for recovery and you'll be fine.