Looking at options for long term and durable offline archiving for photos, images, pdf, etc. So far I'm looking at Sony's archival disk or Verbatim M Disc, the M Disc in particular claims to be able to last 1000 years. Also open to online storage suggestions, but sometimes the internet likes to wipe things and I want to view things when power is down.
>>1547482Same anon
>>1547482Anon, I've got to give it to you straight. Don't data hoard. Unless it's something incredibly personal, like family photos, video, or related to your business, realize that all things are ephemeral. That M-disc you just burned? Pending it doesn't get lost, damaged, or degrade (because we fell for the marketing), good luck trying to find a working optical drive in a decade or three.On the other hand, I sympathize with you if you are indeed trying to preserve something personal, in which case you will have to consider options like external drives AND cloud services. Multi-GB flash drives, HDDs, and outright Network Attached Storage (NAS) are the most cost-effective options for offline preservation. Cloud options have their risks regarding privacy and costs, but offer off-site storage (in case your home or business burns down), and they take care of managing the physical drives.You can get 20GB free from Mega and 15 GB from Google, with options to buy more storage. They also give you the software to sync your data across computers
>>1547543Don't worry I have no illusion I can archive everything, groups like Internet Archive are better suited to that. I just need something long lasting and durable if SHTF so I have something to help fallback on and to archive things that I consider important.>Multi-GB flash drives, HDDs, and outright Network Attached Storage (NAS) are the most cost-effective options for offline preservation. I did consider these options, but I had flash drives and hard drives die on me and I rather not keep buying newer drives to make sure files last. I heard they can last over 50 years under the right circumstances, but that seems to be the exception not the rule. I might get NAS for convenience sake, but I wouldn't consider it for long term. Still open to suggestions if you have any. I do have a Mega account, but issue is when power is down there's a good chance I might not be able to access it. Rather not use a disc to store my things, but assuming what is said is true these types of disc can last ages due to material used to produce these things. Issue is as you said, the possibility we might not be able to read these disc in the coming decades or centuries ahead. I do think people will keep and produce tool to read optical disc, but they will rare and expensive, however I cannot deny the possibility disc might be become so obsolete and irrelevant they might be impossible to read.
