problem is ssds need to be powered on from time to time and that gets annoying if you've got things stored on secondary drives or don't want to keep upgrading your storage and adding drives. having some sort of storage that can remain stable for years longer and therfore be less frequent a chore is really nice. downside is with physical media it's the material itself that degrades so once the time comes you need to tranfer everything all over again but when you can safely wait a years before doing that i still say it's more convenient. regardless, there's a reason theres still a huge market for things like magnetic tape and it's the go to for large businesses with lots of data to archive long term and space to spare for the spools. if you save lots of media having stable storage is something that is in fact done for convenience. i can see a personal server that you keep powered on networked to your primary devices being an option too but that takes another sort of matinence and troubleshooting itself.
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