On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:54 PM, aussieshepsrock <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > I'm setting up to archive family photo's for posterity but am > getting conflicting info on Media Choices and on going between CDR or > DVDR. I'm also not quite sure where to look for scientifically valid > evaluations and reccomendations. My google searches and readings seem > to be a mix of single source data sets (ie: personal experience!), > press releases, 'flame wars', and esoteric descriptions of theories, > methodologies, and technologies. I HAD been sold on using very high > grade Media made with Gold for it's supposed 'Archival' nature and > with CD because they were engineered (supposedly) for extravagent > fault tolerance and ability to retrieve 'all' of one's data while > DVD's were (supposedly) engineered so error's and missing data have > minimal impact on the playing of video. ie: with frames a-b-c-d > playing and frame c's data is missing the video stream calmly marches > on the frame d. (Simplistic descripions I know, but I think fairly > accurate). > > I'm quite lost and am looking for a 'good' reference source! > > I am not looking for '100000' year durability, just serious confidence > in making it 10-15years before revisiting this data for a 'media' or > technology roll over. > > Richard > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ >
Info like that would probably be on wikipedia. An article ( I unfortunately cam't recall where. CPU magazine maybe) about a year ago stll claimed that for museum and industrial archiving tape is still considered the " GOLD " standard. Providing of course magnetic fields can be avoided. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
