Focusing on the things I can control I keep a Blu-ray disc backup collection of my most important family media etc.
Other than that a nice bunker with canned food would be nice but that's approaching tinfoil hat territory.
Other than that a nice bunker with canned food would be nice but that's approaching tinfoil hat territory.
It isn't about the survivalist fantasy of society crumbling into pieces over night, it is the idea of being prepared for those outlier systemic failures. A power failure for a few days, a flood, short term shipping delays etc.
As an aside, one thing they like to stress the most is, the single best thing you can do to be prepped is to be in as good of health as you can manage. If something goes down and you drop dead from a stress induced heart attack, all the other stuff is pointless.
And be on good terms with your neighbours. I'm no prepper/survivalist, but groups are more resilient than individuals in most circumstances.
In general, Solid state drives as long term storage is probably OK on the time frame of a single decade but they degrade with time. Some of the more dense ones even show noticeable degradation in less than a year as the error correction slows transfer speeds.
I have had some USB sticks that have held information from 2006 but it hard to tell what state they were in.