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Do tapes last longer than (unused) hard drives? I figured it's the same medium in a different shape.
Paper can rot away too, although it varies in stability and it can sometimes be read anyway (like with the Herculaneum scrolls) because it's so low-density it acts as a form or redundancy. Optical disks will last a long time, and you can get archival ones that should still be like new after millennia.
Tape storage lasts almost indefinitely if stored properly.