Need to keep your photos safe for 1,000 years?

wellmanwellman Registered Users Posts: 961 Major grins
edited July 21, 2009 in The Big Picture
The folks at Millenniata would like to help.

I'm not affilliated; I'm just interested to see where this goes. :D

http://www.millenniata.com
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited July 20, 2009
    Interesting. I wonder if it's been independently verified?
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  • wellmanwellman Registered Users Posts: 961 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2009
    ian408 wrote:
    Interesting. I wonder if it's been independently verified?

    That's one thing I'm wondering about, too. A DVD seems a bit limiting, but if they release recordable blu-ray discs with this tech (and it's legit), it would make for some nice "rot-proof" archival backups.
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited July 20, 2009
    If I read it correctly, they are etching obsidian based media. I'm guessing you can't read this on just any device. But think of it as being similar to chiseling stone. The one's and zero's will be there for a long time. Just not so sure about the reader device.
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  • PrezwoodzPrezwoodz Registered Users Posts: 1,147 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2009
    I wonder how much a disk holds. I couldn't find that anywhere.
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  • wellmanwellman Registered Users Posts: 961 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2009
    Prezwoodz wrote:
    I wonder how much a disk holds. I couldn't find that anywhere.

    The initial disc is standard DVD capacity - 4.7 GB. It will supposedly be readable by regular DVD drives. I've read a blu-ray version (25 GB) will follow.
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  • mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2009
    wellman wrote:
    The folks at Millenniata would like to help.

    I'm not affilliated; I'm just interested to see where this goes. :D

    http://www.millenniata.com
    Its a moot point. Technology will move past that device long before the physical medium wears out. How many still use 3.5" floppies? And if you had an long-term archival quality 3.5" floppy wouldn't you have moved that data to a new format by now anyway?
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  • wellmanwellman Registered Users Posts: 961 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2009
    mercphoto wrote:
    Its a moot point. Technology will move past that device long before the physical medium wears out. How many still use 3.5" floppies? And if you had an long-term archival quality 3.5" floppy wouldn't you have moved that data to a new format by now anyway?

    That's a fair point. However, knowing my data will be intact 10-20 years from now when I move it from this to the new super-duper format would be nice. I don't have that confidence with regular optical media.
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