Re: archiving of digital photos

Alan Browne <alan.browne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
James Silverton wrote:

I wonder what is or are the best media for archiving? Have you tried
randomly recalling some of the older images and checking for loss of
quality?

Long life "gold" CD's or DVD's. 100+ years in benign condtions.

The odds of a DVD being readable in 40 years (much less 100) is pretty
close to zero.

Why?

Do you still have an 8-inch floppy disk drive attached to your
computer? How about a 5.25 inch floppy drive? They were widely
used about 20 years ago.

The point being that you have to plan on copying the data to some new
media on a regular basis. No matter how reliable the media it's
worthless crap if you have no way of getting it into a computer.

--
Ray Fischer
rfischer@xxxxxxxxx

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