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Uh oh. You guys aren't going to like this one. What shall I do with all my photos??? I don't think I'll be going to magnetic tape anytime soon, but who knows... (photo not related to subject in any way)

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations

Duh ! yeah have to go back film ............

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html

There's a thread about this on the forum not too long ago. I'll repeat what I said there. I don't use CD/DVD for storage. I store them on my PC and on my server (the server is the backup). The chance of them failing at the same time is negligable. If you don't have a server (I can imagine most people don't) I recommend 1 or 2 portable USB harddrives. To be even safer, store one of the HD's in a different location, and I do mean out of the house :)

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
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LOL @ Richard. Seems like it, huh... Good advise Rinze. Yeah, a backup HD is the way to go I think. I seem to remember that thread, but this was a new article so thought I'd bring it up again, lest we forget. ;]

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Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations

Yeah, I'm at 50 gigs of photos 35000+! Busy WEEDING thru them all,Jpgs, Tifs, RAW, PSD's.... using a prog called IMATCH to catalog them! I can't imagine burning these all to CD or DVD! Just when we got rid of all of them DAMN Floppy Disks...it seems the tech evolution breeds its own "infinite Loop" of redundancy so to speak! With the price of Harddrives these days, it just seems more cost effective to backup this way! Less of you time too! (Which is a commodity in itself!)

Too true Joe, too true. "Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping ..."

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations

Attached Link: http://store.mam-a-store.com/standard---archive-gold.html

I'll try to post more later. http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12889

Question the question. Answer the question. Question the answer...

I wish I knew what I was gonna say :oP

300 years? Wow...I better start taking my vitamins if I'm going to be around to test that out. Sounds like a viable option...still like the backup HD idea. Thanks for the link D!

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations

I'm just straightening out my 78's before the cd's don't work no more :(

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html

It was gonna mention that. CD players, even DVD players, might not be around 10 years from now, let alone 20 or 50 or 300. When was the last time you saw a record player for sale anywhere? ;]

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations

Three thing Blu-ray, Hd-dvd, HVD,

Question the question. Answer the question. Question the answer...

I wish I knew what I was gonna say :oP

Hmmmm what an interesting question, young sweedish terrorist...! What do you think about stone? You've been in Rome recently, I guess you've been able to appreciate the impressive life span of all the sculptures made in stone, haven't you? So... A cd is no more than a sculpture, isn't it? A sculpture composed with little holes to simulates bits, nothing more! In froggish we don't say "I gonna burn a cd" but "I gonna sculpt a cd" (this is true!) So... What difference is there between burning holes in a piece of plastic and sculpting holes in a stone? Hmmmm? What difference...? You will have a guarantee of life span quite much more satisfying than with those stupid piece of polymerized organics compounds, believe me! ... You don't believe me?? Ohhh shit, do what you wish, dude...

stones can weight tons and a piece of plastic weights less

what you see is not what you know; it in your face

Ohhh! Yes you're right... Bummer, I didn't think about that detail...! ;-)