Sorry - writable optical media fail MUCH faster than hard drives, have less capacity, and are much more maintenance work. I wouldn't touch Blue-Ray for archive storage, don't bother with DVD either.
Rotating media hard drives are cheap and are currently the most reliable and best bang for the buck capacity wise. G On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Bipin Gupta <bip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why not use archival quality Blu Ray Discs. You could burn two or more > and disperse them to family/friends for safe keeping just in case > ..... > For those still in the DVD era, archival quality scratch proof coated > discs are available in over 8 GB capacities. > Ultimately all Hard Drives and solid state storage systems are bound > to fail, as they have a life. Folks with a Raid Array (of Hard Disks) > stand a better chance of recovery of failed drives ofcourse, but then > mother board electronics are the weak link in such systems. > For those of us with lots of moolah, cloud storage on a far away > server is another safe way of storing your photos. > Bipin - from a far away enchanting land. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
