I'm one of those who advocates for NOT having everything online all the time. Since my high school days, I've filed everything in chronological order. It's relatively easy for me to find negatives I made in 1969. (My event memory is pretty good, and besides, I have my yearbooks to back it up.)

Since working in Lightroom, I've started a new catalog every time I've started a new drive. The new catalog is on that drive. The drives are stored by date, say, 2014 to 2016 for one of them. When I need an image from 2015, I plug in that drive and point Lightroom to that catalog. Boom!

On that drive, my images are separated by year, and event within the year. Each event includes the date and a few descriptive words. In the Library, it is very easy to find the event I need, pop up the images on the grid or "light table" motif, click on the image, and do what I want with it in Develop or Print (or just export it).

I worked in a large portrait lab for decades. When we transitioned to digital production in the early 2000s, we had a similar setup. We had 72 TB online, and a database application to manage it. We could find and load any job (event) in seconds, by following a simple path similar to this one:

Territory Number --> Customer Number --> Job Number --> Session Number

Job numbers were structured so that we knew the year by looking at them. The database stored the file location for each job on the server. A separate database identified each subject in a job's subject database, which led to all the associated order data, and the associated image(s) for each subject. Between our retail territories and our wholesale customer territories, we photographed millions of people each year, so we had to be able to keep them straight!

If the market changes to the point where my old drives can't be read by current ports, I'll just disassemble the cases, pull out the bare drives, and use a universal drive adapter to copy data to a new drive standard. https://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/U3NV2SPATA/ They've built adapters like these for many years now, and I've no doubt they'll update it for USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 or whatever they need to.

I never do this for more than a shot or two. Shooting a concert last night, I probed into the shadows for a minute (15th of a second), then turned back to the stage (350th of a second) and shot a few frames without making that change. A few shots were blown out before I caught it on the LCD. I never, ever, use auto ISO. I tried at a few times a couple of years ago in response to raves on UHH, and hated it. I went back to setting it for every situation. I want to KNOW on each shot what ISO I am shooting at and believe I can choose better than the camera. So at my concert, the only thing I lost control of was my shutter speed. (shooting wide open f2.8) and caught it quickly. It''s a little hard to imagine shooting wrong for an extended period as I am always checking and rechecking my settings.
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I will never understand the pro-jpeg argument - absolutely nothing is lost when shooting raw - no downside, other than a few minutes of time for a few that need to provide instant images, or shooting in studio settings where there is 100% control over the light and contrast. And, as the art director inferred, raw images are far easier and faster to edit. It sure sounds like the vast majority can benefit from shooting raw files if their camera can produce them. There really is no rational or meaningful downside -

One main reason that SD cards can become corrupted is removing the card from the camera, inserting the card into a card reader and then repeating this process in reverse, that a total of four opportunities when the card can get corrupted if not done with extreme care.
I have three cameras which I have never removed the SD cards for years, there is no real need to constantly remove and replace the cards, so I have never had a card failure.
Many members do regularly take the SD cards out of their cameras and never have a corruption problem because they have been very careful when handling their cards.

My advice is to avoid card corruption to leave the card in the camera!