@hannah The US National Archives would violently agree with you. They have to deal with everything from punched cards with round holes (really!) to 7 track magnetic tapes to Zip drives and punched paper tapes (lots of formats.)

It is amazing how unstable a lot of modern media is - like DVDs. I tend to put my longest term stuff onto spinning disk drives with SATA interfaces. I haven't had problems with those (at least not since the old problem with head-to-platter "sticktion" was resolved.)