The Stomachion Data Preservation and Archimedes

In Archimedes
Expensive media ensured the survival of this work? Or does cheap storage guarantee future works are safe? I think right now that storage is neither cheap enough nor durable enough.

In the 13th century, Dr. Netz explained, Christian monks, needing vellum for a prayer book, ripped the manuscript apart, washed it, folded its pages in half and covered it with religious text. After centuries of use, the prayer book — known as a palimpsest, because it contains text that is written over — ended up in a monastery in Constantinople.