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Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years?
An anonymous reader writes "My kid is now 1 year old and I already have 100G of digital video (stored on DVDs, DVD quality) and photos. How should I store it so that it's still readable 10 to 20 years from now? Will DVDs stil be around, and readable, 10 years from now? Should I plan for technology changes every 5 to 10 years (DVD->Blue-ray->whatever)? Is optical storage better, or should I try to use hard drives (making technology changes automatic)? And, if the answer is optical, how do you store optical disks so that they last?"
Well why not optical platters? We have 50 year retainment requirements for certain documents and were looking at Plasmon optical devices. They claim it will still be readable and are the only type of backup media that survived both 9/11 and Katrina. Although when I asked if it was the same cartridge that survived both, the vendor gave me a dirty look. I think though you would be fine with dvd-r and just make a new copy every 5 years.
Only wimps use optical media, _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.
Video I posted 20 years ago is still there....
Unix, an obscure operating system developed by bored researchers in an attempt to get a better game playing experience.
1. Rename to "xxx 18yr old bj strip"
2. Upload to P2P protocol of choice.
Let it proliferate around the internet and retrieve it when necessary.
Step 1: Review video footage.
Step 2: Carve memorable/important parts into stone.
Step 3: ??? (commandments?)
Step 4: Prophet!
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
As I understand it, holomagical disks will be loaded with so much DRM, nobody will be allowed to view the contents. Period.
Collude with a friend to email back and forth encrypted copies of your photos. Arrange for them to be perpetually stored in transit on somebody-else's mail server awaiting delivery.
Better still - uucp them over some convoluted circular path back to yourself.
Or rig up an ultra-high-speed moonbounce communications system...
Just keep them all in motion and they won't get lost.
Nullius in verba
Duct, Electrical, Masking or Transparent?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Print the bits out on paper to be scanned later, as necessary. You should make several copies and store them in different locations incase of fire or water damage. To answer your next question: Land in Montana and the Yukon territory is cheap.
Oops! Dammit, preview, preview!
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Man, you got really upset over that RAID suggestion. With a name like 900ftJesus, I would have expected a more kinder, gentler approach.
Back then we had to hand flatten the metal parts ourselves and burn them using a magnifying glass and the sun. And unless you had like 3 espressos, the only speed you could do it at was 1X.
"But this one goes to 11!"
WW900FTJD?
Be careful though... When burning these, it's critical that you only use gold [USB, SATA, PATA] cables to connect your burner to your computer. Otherwise the bits on the media will degrade quickly due to galvanic corrosion.
Why is there an "insightful" mod and why isn't it "-1"? If I wanted insight, I wouldn't be reading