Hello!
So, I own a collectors edition for a video game, this video game has a strategy guide that I wished to put in the box, but it’s too big.
So I had the idea of putting files, most likely PDF forms of the Strategy Book, other guides, and maybe short video trailers of the game (and maybe some gameplay) in some form of physical storage and keeping it in the box, so many years down the line I could open the box, plug in the device, and watch the videos and read the books to understand what the game was (especially if I no longer have the means of playing the game, it’s Fallout New Vegas)
I initially was thinking of a Flash-Drive / Pen Drive. I just found one sitting around which is 32GB and it could work (hasn’t been used since 2018 though) but I heard that Flash-Drives apparently deteriorate over time, which would be inefficient for the whole purpose of archiving these files about the game for future use.
Apparently there’s other options I could try, maybe I could still use Flash-Drives but just copy the files from one drive to a new one every couple years (depending on how long it lasts, will be expensive though) or External SSDs but I heard they deteriorate by 10 years though as well.
I’m kind of stuck now on what to do for this archival purpose. I know everything probably fails after time, especially digitally, but if there’s some form of long-term storage where I only have to copy to a newer device after a considerably long time, that would be nice.
You guys probably know a lot more about this than me though, I’m interested to learn and hear any of your ideas on what to do! Thank you so much and have a good day!