VHS Capturing - Storage?

[cmic2002]

So I finally had a bout of inspiration again and tried fiddling with Vdub again, and I finally got it to function and capture with my hardware! I have been capturing 8mm tapes thus far (need to replace a fuse in my SVHS deck for that to start working again), 480p, Lagarith lossless codec, and the amount of space being used is absolutely insane! I've already gone through over 2.5tb, and by the end by my estimation with how long each tape is, I will end up with around 14tb of raw video, before I create a master edit that's been deinterlaced and all that. I want to keep my original captures though of course, in case I want to reprocess differently for whatever reason in the future.
I am pretty tight on money, but plan to get two ~20tb HDDs and put one full copy of the raw footage on each. Anyone want to share what they do to archive their footage, out of curiosity?
This just makes me wonder though how anyone was able to hold on to their raw footage, especially 20+ years ago with how small hard drives were then. Anyone around back then want to share their method?

[Sharc]

This just makes me wonder though how anyone was able to hold on to their raw footage, especially 20+ years ago with how small hard drives were then. Anyone around back then want to share their method?

Keeping the tapes in a safe place (and still keeping them there, even after lossless digitization when storage space became available and affordable).
(To find a tape player in good working condition may be the bigger problem these days than the condition of the tapes).

[cmic2002]

This just makes me wonder though how anyone was able to hold on to their raw footage, especially 20+ years ago with how small hard drives were then. Anyone around back then want to share their method?

Keeping the tapes in a safe place (and still keeping them there, even after lossless digitization when storage space became available and affordable).
(To find a tape player in good working condition may be the bigger problem these days than the condition of the tapes).

I was referring to the lossless digital copy of the raw footage, if they were taking up the project of digitizing them back then xP