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I burn 25 GB M-DISCs every few months. If I were being properly rigorous I'd be burning three copies and putting two of them in different physical places. Pri
by NateEag 5y ago
I burn 25 GB M-DISCs every few months.
If I were being properly rigorous I'd be burning three copies and putting two of them in different physical places.
Printing out the occasional photo book of our favorites is also a part of the strategy - if our grandkids want to see photos of our lives after we're dead, they won't need to worry about lapsed hosting bills or ancient storage technology. They can just look at the book.
Obligatory reference to my rant about data preservation:
http://howicode.nateeag.com/data-preservation.html http://howicode.nateeag.com/data-preservation.html
- supperburg 5y agoPlus one to this. A Blu-ray is durable, maintenance free and most importantly extremely common. Anyone can use one and this will likely be true for a long time. There will be people around who can get data off Blu-ray’s for an exceedingly long time. But printed images are the ultimate. They require no extraction whatsoever.
- fireflymetavrse 5y agoI find 100 GB mdiscs somewhat cheaper per GB than the 25 ones.
- NateEag 5y agoHuh, thanks for the heads-up. IIRC, when I settled on the 25s, they were a slightly better price/GB than the 100s. Maybe that's no longer true (or possibly never was).