Permanent and continuous storage for family photos large and video solution

I have been using external hard drives to save years of athletics competitions for my children, for posterity and my team amateur video (iMovie project) at the end of the season.  However, I need a failsafe, courses and the permanent storage for my thousands of photos and 300 GB of digital video clips (and more).  If I continue to use external drives, I still have readers risk bad over time.  What are my options, please?

Keep several copies on separate drives offsite. There is no solution "fail safe." You can mitigate or reduce the impact knowing that drives die, buildings burn, data gets corrupted/stolen or lost. Knowing that on the records of time bad go migrate your data to new disks on a rotation schedule.

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