datahoarder
Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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Why don't you buy a BD-ROM drive and burn around 50GB data to those? Then they have those drive cases that'll hold around 100 discs on a soft sleeve, easy to store, lightweight, but takes manual moving. But of you're prose is archival/backup, that's the way to go.
I've got stacks of DVD-ROM discs from almost 20 years ago that hold 4.7GB data each iirc and have flip phone pictures and video on just to not waste space on a backup hard drives that's not likely to fail. I do have a BD-ROM drive now but never cared to pull data from disc to HDD, then reburn multiple onto 1 or 2 BD discs. Would make sense to do it as it'll reset the preservation clock, be ~$100 drive, and last about 30 years.
You're looking for inexpensive, long term, low technical skill. And I give you a solution that doesn't require giving Sony money outside of royalties for blu ray tech.