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KHatch · by **KHatch** on April 24th, 2004, 8:13 am

What are you doing to archive your digital images? Are you hoping that your cd-r's will be ok in the future? Do you just not worry about it and let them fade away with the media? This article kinda gets me thinking. I know of some photographers that archive to both optical media (cd/dvd) and to large hard drives. They store the filled hd's and swap them with new ones. If you're an overshooter like me, it can get quite expensive. Do you have a concern of accessing your images down the road?

MarkK · by **MarkK** on April 24th, 2004, 9:46 am

Yes, I'm very concerned. I've seen digital images of a Space Shuttle launching "archieved" onto a disk that already shows severe degradation. Given that the image was captured in the mid-eighties it makes me wonder about those "lifetime storage" promises. Yes, I know the technology has improved for disk burning since they were created but I still wonder what my images will look like in 25 or 50 years. Hopefully some MIT or Cal-Tech graduate will figure out a viable, cost efficiant solution soon.

InSituPhoto · by **InSituPhoto** on April 24th, 2004, 12:52 pm

We check our media every 6 months or so and recopy anything that seems to be having issues.

Right now we're about to invest in a DVD-burner ($250) and start copying our CD's over to DVD.

Max · by **Max** on April 24th, 2004, 8:40 pm

I bought two 160gig USB 2.0 hard drives. One is strictly a backup of the other. It is not on all the time ONLY when I want to back from the one drive to the other. I also make CD's of all raw, unedited images and store them... I have a DVD burner and am going to start storing to DVD soon... Is there a right answer? NOPE! But I am happy with my solution...

wnymodels · by **wnymodels** on August 30th, 2004, 3:55 pm

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Archiving and storage - "saving time"

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