"Forever" is a very long time. Hopefully 60 more years if I'm lucky. Way long than most off the shelf storage devices will last.
I currently have about 2GB of personal files (and growing) that I want to retain the rest of my life. Nothing overly interesting, but some files contain sensitive information. I'll only add files once or twice a year, so low availability is fine.
My only real requirement is that I know it's secure. And I know I have the only key. So either I how the physical devices or I use strong encryption before sending it up.
How do you guys handle backups?
And I would double each storage media and keep one set off site.
This is all a little much for anything less than a "I NEVER can lose this data" requirement.