Comments on: Digital Photographs for a Lifetime

By: SanDisk Memory Vault Drive Designed to Help Your Photos Outlive You

SanDisk Memory Vault Drive Designed to Help Your Photos Outlive You — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:31:16 +0000

[...] At the same time, the general public probably doesn’t spend nearly enough time and money ensuring the safety of those same photos. Well, SanDisk announced a new product today designed to help photos last at [...]

By: The Impermanence of Digital Photographs

The Impermanence of Digital Photographs — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:44:40 +0000

[...] true that digital photos can last for quite some time if you’re tech-savvy enough to preserve them well, how many people in the general population actually do so? For the ordinary photo-taker, making a [...]

By: CD DVD Printer

CD DVD Printer — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:02:00 +0000

Thanks for these steps and tips. Discs will definitely last for years depending on the usage.

By: TDK Unveils 1TB Optical Disk, Photogs in the Distance Future Rejoice

TDK Unveils 1TB Optical Disk, Photogs in the Distance Future Rejoice — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:10:22 +0000

[...] TDK has unveiled a monstrous 1 terabyte (1000 gigabyte) optical disc at CEATEC 2010 (the Japanese equivalent of CES), which wrapped up a couple days ago. The disc has 16 layers on both sides that each store 32GB of data, and is the equivalent to about 213 of the recordable DVD discs that you might be using to back up your image files. As someone who uses multiple external hard drives and countless DVD-Rs to backup my photos, I’d love to use these massive discs for backups and redundancy. [...]

By: CD Printers

CD Printers — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:57:00 +0000

Discs will not last for years if not properly stores. I don’t know where did they found the data that a CD-R CD can last for years.

By: Return To Film » Blog Archive » Bit Rot…

Return To Film » Blog Archive » Bit Rot… — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:35:27 +0000

[...] http://www.petapixel.com/2009/09/24/digital-photographs-for-a-lifetime/ Example of Bit Rot on a photo New Posts [...]

By: SnapHaven Offers Lifetime Guaranteed Photo Storage

SnapHaven Offers Lifetime Guaranteed Photo Storage — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:23:17 +0000

[...] in September we wrote an article discussing how difficult it is to keep digital photographs safe for a really, really long time. We [...]

By: Fotografie digitali per tutta la vita? | adolfo.trinca.name

Fotografie digitali per tutta la vita? | adolfo.trinca.name — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:20:03 +0000

[...] letto un interessantissimo articolo di Michael Zhang su PP ovvero Peta Pixel che affrontava il problema della conservazione delle fotografie digitali e ne [...]

By: Nathan Yan

Nathan Yan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:31:14 +0000

If you're using hard drives for archival storage, however, the moving parts is not an issue – you're essentially using them as write-once drives that you won't be frequently accessing.

Flash is the same – the limit only applies to writes, which you'll basically be doing once per bit for archival storage.

By: Nathan Yan

Nathan Yan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:25:17 +0000

Online cloud storage is the way to go – they have so much redundancy (geographic redundancy too, which you don't get by keeping a bunch of hard drives or a box of photos at home) that your risk of data loss is virtually zero.