The current "best" is using DVDs or Blu-ray disks with M-DISK technology. It claims to have 1000 year storage. Of course, you should also buy 5 or 6 of the M-DISK compatible drives to ensure that at least one of them still works and exists in 30 or 50 years when you might want to read such an archaic storage medium.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC Jason On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 1:15 PM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote: > What are the current preferences for long term, off line storage of > photo files? (At this point I don't know how many, or how large the > files are.) > > Are thumb drives good for that? > > I recall reading several years ago that CD/DVD disks degrade over time. > Is that still true? > > What other alternatives are there? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
