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Panasonic stores 100GB on three-layer rewritable Blu-ray dis
Stanley Leary, Photographer
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Thomas Oed, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 1:35 AM on 04.06.11 |
->> Cool that they've upped the capacity some more...
I'd think they're likely just as fragile as DVD's and CD's, but I don't have any hard data on that. Makes sense though, that you'd still need to handle them carefully and store them properly.
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Curtis Clegg, Photographer
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Sycamore | IL | USA | Posted: 8:03 AM on 04.06.11 |
->> Thomas' reply reminds me of a question I have had for a while... what is the preferred way to store CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs?
I have been storing one set of off-site DVDs in slim jewel boxes, stored upright in a plastic Rubbermaid bin. But even those slim jewel boxes get bulky after you accumulate your first 100 of them or so...
Are paper or plastic DVD sleeves safe for archival storage? What about storing the discs on the spools from whence they came? |
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Gregory Greene, Photographer
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Durham | NH | USA | Posted: 9:16 AM on 04.06.11 |
->> The slim jewel boxes stored vertically sound safest to me.
I would be afraid of some chemical in the paper or plastic
sleeves reacting with the disc over time but I'm paranoid.
The big problem is writable DVD's have not been around for
that long to really judge their reliability over archival
time spans. You are really putting your data in the hands
of the manufacturers best guess as to how it will perform
over a long period of time.
My photo storage over time simply outgrew the CD/DVD backup
technology and I switched to external HD's stored offsite.
I don't really "archive" in the true sense of the term. I
have copies of my data on 3 levels of media. RAID5 main
storage, external RAID5 main backup, and external HD's for
offsite. I wrote some simple robocopy batch files to mirror
between them all.
Someday a NAS would be nice for offsite storage so I
wouldn't have to physically transport HD's. |
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Chris Wood, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | US | Posted: 8:04 PM on 04.06.11 |
->> Every year I buy a new hard drive for $100... and I've been doing this for 6 years now. I think it went 250GB, 320, 500, 750, 1TB, 1.5... thank goodness the 3TB drives just came out and the 2TB drives are only $80 now because these RAW files just get bigger and bigger every year.
Anyway... now I only have 6 hard drives to worry about instead of 100's of DVDs.
I was also a very early adopter to DVD-R (I paid $500 for a 2x DVD burner in the year 2000 I think). In the first couple of years I ripped every movie I had in my library at home on a variety of different brands and types of media. 2 years later, only the discs from one of the brands still worked (TDK), and 2 years after that 100% of my original movie rips were toast. So except for giving a client some proofs on a disc for them to transfer to their own system... I basically have not burned a DVD in about 9 years because my experience was that DVD+-R technology was a complete waste of time. Maybe things changed after that but I see no reason to really test it out when hard drives will always have way more capacity and they are relatively small.
But in reality my primary backup these days is smugmug... I literally have hundreds of thousands of jpg's on my site |
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Gregory Greene, Photographer
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Durham | NH | USA | Posted: 9:22 PM on 04.06.11 |
->> I don't mind putting jpegs out to Zenfolio (similar to smugmug) but I don't think I would ever trust the Cloud
with my RAW files. Those will always be on some form of media that I control. |
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