As can be seen, traditional film use is 15% or less with digital technologies such as optical discs, hard disk drives, magnetictape and flash memory are the bulk of modern recording media.
Also modern enterprise storage technology, whether it is flash memory, HDDs or magnetictape include new power saving features to minimize the costs of storage.
Regarding the longevity of storage media many of the products that we use today, hard disk drives, flash memory, optical discs and magnetictape will react with the ambient environment and gradually lose the data stored on them or disintegrate over time.