Long term storage = Archive. Things don't change in an archive.
Here's what I recommend.
Buy a large hard drive, add your crap to it... and unplug it. The drive will last as long as you don't break the thing. Plug it back in every few months and add more to the archive. Since it won't be running you wont need to worry about drive failures, and hard drives have longer shelf lives than tape or optical media when not used.
I personally don't do this... but I have network file systems that keeps my stuff backed up in multiple physical locations with redundancy on the main file server. My system is a $2k setup containing over a dozen drives in 3 machines. My suggestion would cost $80:P
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Long term storage = Archive. Things don't change in an archive. Here's what I recommend. Buy a large hard drive, add your crap to it... and unplug it. The drive will last as long as you don't break the thing. Plug it back in every few months and add more to the archive. Since it won't be running you wont need to worry about drive failures, and hard drives have longer shelf lives than tape or optical media when not used. I personally don't do this... but I have network file systems that keeps my stuff backed up in multiple physical locations with redundancy on the main file server. My system is a $2k setup containing over a dozen drives in 3 machines. My suggestion would cost $80 :P