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Which long term storage method do you all use?
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<blockquote data-quote="paul_b" data-source="post: 305578" data-attributes="member: 15676"><p>I'm asking because i have lots of pictures and videos that i have collected of my family for the last few years. They are stored on my PC, & also on an external hard drive and backup DVD's.</p><p></p><p>After doing some research I'm horrified to learn than those storage options are quite unsafe over time. I.e The magnetic information on a hard drive will fade in just a few years (as little as 3) unless it is re-written. The DVD's are not much better as the dye that's burnt into to store the information on the discs also fades over time and is not much better than the magnetic disc in a hard drive. So I'm quite worried about data loss now.</p><p></p><p>So, does anybody else here share the same concerns and have particular strategies for backing up the media that they don't want to loose?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paul_b, post: 305578, member: 15676"] I'm asking because i have lots of pictures and videos that i have collected of my family for the last few years. They are stored on my PC, & also on an external hard drive and backup DVD's. After doing some research I'm horrified to learn than those storage options are quite unsafe over time. I.e The magnetic information on a hard drive will fade in just a few years (as little as 3) unless it is re-written. The DVD's are not much better as the dye that's burnt into to store the information on the discs also fades over time and is not much better than the magnetic disc in a hard drive. So I'm quite worried about data loss now. So, does anybody else here share the same concerns and have particular strategies for backing up the media that they don't want to loose? [/QUOTE]
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