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It takes quite a bit of shock force [1] and a pretty insane magnetic field [2] to damage rust.
Also you could buy 2 6tb hdds [3] for the price of that single ssd and mirror them for another level of redundancy, so in my book they come out way ahead of ssds and cloud storage for backup/archival purposes.
1: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a-sturdy-companion,758-2...
2: http://superuser.com/questions/568336/what-is-the-tolerable-...
3: https://smile.amazon.com/Marshal-7200RPM-Internal-MAL36000NS...