Storage of old images

[monkeykoder]

My personal option would be to build a computer to use as network attached storage and put it on raid 5 I think it is where everything written to one hard drive is cloned to the other(s) (ask your local computer geek if this idea.

 

[jkernitzki]

Actually, the method you choose today is less important than the decision to make perpetual backups. The media of choice will change. Plan on migrating to different media on a 5-10 year basis, it's the nature of the beast.

In 30 years of DP/IS/IT/CS (and every other computing acronym du jour), I've seen preferred "permanent" storage media change permanently several times. Tape to HDD to CD to DVD and back & forth as they compete for durability & capacity.

Just be glad you didn't invest too much in Zip drives...

 

[JerryPH]

Just be glad you didn't invest too much in Zip drives...

A few years back, a client gave me 2 of his 100mb ZIP drives in serial connector format. About as reliable as a freaking 5-1/4 inch floppy!

 

[Mesoam]

that is actually the best idea...but i would say 90% of the people here don't know what raid5 with striping is...

and they would really have no reason to unless they are managing a data center

My personal option would be to build a computer to use as network attached storage and put it on raid 5 I think it is where everything written to one hard drive is cloned to the other(s) (ask your local computer geek if this idea.

 

[H0LLYW00D]

i have an external HDD and a network attached storage which is a RAID 0 (cloning) so keep things in sync.

 

[Felix 222]

a good 500gb (plenty) external hd for $100 will work wonders. they're faster, more convenient, easier to search photos, etc

 

[jstuedle]

The life span for DVD/CD media quoted in several of the above posts is a little misleading. The typical burned disk only has a life span of 10-25% that of a program disk or commercial DVD movie. Cheap media with critical data burned on it may only last a few years, not decades. Even the best archival disks I would not trust past 10 years or so. That is most likely a moot point though. In 10 years, our DVD's will go the way of the 5 1/4" SS floppy drive. We will need to re-archive all data to keep a current format.