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Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years?

Posted by kdawson on from the thanks-for-the-memories dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:CDs still a pain. Keep it alive and available. by mc900ftjesus · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you worked for me, I would fire you. RAID? Seriously? Are you just looking up words on Wikipedia and putting them in your post?

    RAID is NOT a backup method, in any way, shape or form. Corruption written to one disk is written to all disks. A failed controller can ruin an array, software or hardware RAID. It is not for backup, ever. It is for high availability and/or high performance storage NOT as a means to store things indefinitely. In fact, hard drives are never for backup, at all. They can fail on spin-up and you're done, dead drive.

    If you ever ask someone about backups, and the word RAID comes out of their mouth, fire them if they work for you then slap them in the face.

    Tape is the ONLY real backup solution you can get your hands on, period.

  2. You're looking for the wrong thing.. by newr00tic · · Score: 0, Troll

    Others have recommended Taiyo Udens made in Japan as good CD-Rs, but I haven't been able to find them locally.


    That's because you can't fucking spell it, it's called Taiko Yuden.

    No offence, though, and have lots of fun with your correctly-spelled discs.

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