On 04/06/2012 9:23 AM, Bipin Gupta 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.
I've read reports of archival blue rays failing within startlingly short
periods of time, and cloud storage is only as long lived as the company
running the facility. IIRC, recently there was a cloud storage company
in the USA that got shut down by the feds because some of their members
were storing data they didn't own. I'm not sure if the golden users were
able to retain their data or not, but there was certainly a period of
time when that data wasn't available to them.
I don't really think one digital storage technology negates the use of
another one in this instance, since they are all much more failure prone
than a piece of paper stored in a box under the bed.
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William Robb
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