Originally Posted by amateurcanada

I agree on the tape! However, like all media, things degrade the second its complete. Storing all tapes in a cool area without moisture is ideal. OFFLOADING OUR TAPE IMMEDIATELY IS IDEAL - and should be common practice for all producers. After that a few backups via external drives and its no different then tape. Cost might be a bit more but you have that extra level of protection just in case you need to do a re-encode.