I was asked the question about long term storage of news back in 2005. The answer hasn't really changed, fundamentally there is nothing you can buy that will give you rapid access other than a working computer and todays storage technology and it will need replacing and redundency. You need to budget to constantly move to new machines and storage technology and often you only have a 5 years to move off some technologies after they go obsolete.<p>The file formats are a bit stickier. The further you stray from basic text the less time the format tends to last and then you have the potential additional cost of developing a format conversion tool as well.<p>I see the appeal of this if its got sufficient access speed there are a bunch of organisations that will see value in keeping data archived permanently safe. But the problem of binary formats over the long term will persist and I am not sure there is much we can do about that. "Project Silica" will also become an obsolete storage medium as well, I don't think this changes the fundamentals.<p>I would be happier if they were talking about a zip drive like thing so we could all have this rather than a cloud service.