A USB at low prices is not acceptable for long-term backup storage?

I'm close to the graduation of my night school. Subsequently, I plan to upgrade my MCSA & MCDST MCITP and MCTS certifications. I use the ability to download all the stuff of Dreamspark while I still qualify so I'll still have access to the server.

I would normally just burn these images on cd/DVD, but with virtual machines, it is generally easier to use the .iso images. I need a way to save as well as (stored in .txt files) product keys. I'm looking for the cheapest possible solution.

Buy a USB hard drive for $50 at a "back-to-school" sales stories Office Supply would be viable for the long term storage? Those who are not really designed to be WORMs where I write once, and then paste it in a safe place with my original disks/CD/DVD (all since 1989) until I have more software to back up.

In my opinion, a backup tape would be too expensive for my needs, flash drives large size are also expensive, DVD are too small or silly to burn a DVD with a single. ISO image.

So buying an external hard drive seems the cheapest solution, but how that will hold up over time? I think it is bad that the reader will be much used and rest in a unique, rather than be spun position regularly.

Don't forget that "backup" deduced it is a * second * copy data - not your original copy (only).

He'll resist quite well - as long as it is not being abused.  Sitting didn't seem to affect one of the readers that I have 5 + years.  Plugged in recently when I found it.  It was one of them:
http://reviews.CNET.com/external-hard-drives/Ximeta-NetDisk-80GB/4505-3190_7-30734045.html

Yes - I got when it first came out.  Seems small now - I have an eSATA/USB 64 GB flash drive that holds 64GB.

Your concern brings up the fact that it shouldn't be so important to you anyway - if you don't think you'll use it very often. ;-)

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