Best HD Archive file

I know this may be a difficult question.
But what do you guys think is the best file to save long term HD fairly uncompressed files in.
As an example, a lot of our stuff comes in  mt2 or HDV so essentially 1440x1080.
I edit in that format then export the saved file a a HD Mpeg2 file @30mbps in 1440x1080 progressive @30fps.
I was just wondering if there was a better format.
All i use the format for it encoding using sorenson 7 into mp4 files and 1 wmv.
And then keeping it for later for DVD's or whatever. But essentially an equivalent edited file to the original.
What formats do you keep yours in?

Honestly, I've found the most cost effective way for me is to keep data is simply to purchase another hard drive and expand my RAID whenever I run out of room. Eventually I'll get too big (too many disks) for my internal RAID at which time I'll need to purchase a fast external RAID box with a good controller like Harm uses. Things that I know I'll never need again I'll delete after about a year. Otherwise, I've got everything on my system (duplicated with a 4TB external for backup) that I've ever done.... project files and data files and finished output files for whatever I used. The one exception is about 90 120 HDV tapes worth of material, most of which I've deleted from my data RAID since I still have the tapes here and they're old projects that I don't access anymore. If, for some reason, I need to access them I can simply recapture the tapes, link the files, and have my edit fully in place.
Perhaps not the best way to do things, but it's worked for me.

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