HiYa Wallace, Wikipedia was my first stop and while the entries I found were informative, they were for the most part more frightening than definitive about my choices. I've also seen multiple references to the inherent dangers magnetic tapes face over the long term. I also do not have access to 'corporate standard' equipment or budgets that would allow for the avoidance of technological obsolescence let alone Magnetic field avoidance. I also see that CD sized optically read media seems to have a nice leg up on tape drives when it comes to the breadth and depth of their adoption and implementation. The DVD standards mandated CD Reading and Blue Ray mandated DVD and CD reading. I think the breadth of CD and DVD libraries in use around the world can 'help' keep them alive for quite some time as long as optical discs of that size remain in use as the technological advances come and go.
I am planning a 'defense in depth' strategy by deploying well made copies of the data to be held by numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, and siblings across the united states. A 'horrific' person married into the family and actively destroyed the vast majority of my Grandmothers extensive photo and memorabilia collections. I want no person and disaster to be able to do that to this family again. Richard On Jan 4, 9:04 pm, "Wallace Adrian D'Alessio" <fluxstrin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:54 PM, aussieshepsrock > > > > <ilovaussiesh...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm setting up to archive family photo's for posterity but am > > getting conflicting info on Media Choices and on going between CDR or > > DVDR. I'm also not quite sure where to look for scientifically valid > > evaluations and reccomendations. My google searches and readings seem > > to be a mix of single source data sets (ie: personal experience!), > > press releases, 'flame wars', and esoteric descriptions of theories, > > methodologies, and technologies. I HAD been sold on using very high > > grade Media made with Gold for it's supposed 'Archival' nature and > > with CD because they were engineered (supposedly) for extravagent > > fault tolerance and ability to retrieve 'all' of one's data while > > DVD's were (supposedly) engineered so error's and missing data have > > minimal impact on the playing of video. ie: with frames a-b-c-d > > playing and frame c's data is missing the video stream calmly marches > > on the frame d. (Simplistic descripions I know, but I think fairly > > accurate). > > > I'm quite lost and am looking for a 'good' reference source! > > > I am not looking for '100000' year durability, just serious confidence > > in making it 10-15years before revisiting this data for a 'media' or > > technology roll over. > > > Richard > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > > Info like that would probably be on wikipedia. > > An article ( I unfortunately cam't recall where. CPU magazine maybe) > about a year ago stll claimed that for museum and industrial archiving > tape is still considered the " GOLD " standard. Providing of course > magnetic fields can be avoided. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
