02-09-2008, 03:24 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 318
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What is the best long term data storage medium?
My dad has bunches of pictures that he has been taking with his digital cameras over the years, and the other day he asked me "What is the most long lived and reliable storage format available? CD's?"
He wants to be able to put all of his put all of his pictures in one safe retreiveable location that will last for years and years and years. For the average person on the boards here, its no problem to copy pictures from computer to computer as we upgrade, but he doesn't operate like that. It needs to be simple, and it just needs to always work.
According to Wikipedia, CD-Rs and CD-RWs only last 25 to 30 years. What do you think? Portable USB large capacity hard drive?
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