[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Searched on archival cds

Found this:

Archival Gold CD-R

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Don't trust your precious memories to just any storage media. The innovative materials found in Archival Gold CD-R's make them one of the most reliable storage mediums available. CD-R's are known to deteriorate quickly due to Earth's common elements: ultraviolet light, heat, and humidity. Using N.I.S.T.'s (National Institute of Standards and Technology) accelerated aging process to test the longevity of CD-R media, the Archival Gold CD-R's have been shown to safely store your images for more than 300 years.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

2$ a disc...ouch.

Blu-Ray hasn't been mentioned...

[Zuben Elgenubi]

" . . . the Archival Gold CD-R's have been shown to safely store your images for more than 300 years."

Accelerated stability testing?

[rarestia]

700 MB isn’t much storage for images anymore. Most new digicams are set to astronomical dimensions for greatest pixel clarity, but the sizes are well over what most normal folks’ desktop resolutions can handle. As a result, some digital images can breach the 5 MB mark. Isn’t it amazing how far we’ve come?

I was marveling today at how people talk about 500 GB or 620 GB or 750 GB like it’s nothing; it’s so new. I have 2 160 GB SATA disks in a RAID10 in my desktop mobo from 2005, and I’ve made that stretch. Disk storage is obscenely cheap nowadays with 1 TB disks become commonplace; and with 3 Gbps from SATA and 5 Gbps coming up with SATA2, disk access/write speeds are no longer an issue. And finally, jump drives, thumb drives, call them what you want, the offerings in portable USB and firewire hard drives are plentiful.

Most photogs I know use solid-state stuff like thumbdrives and portable disks, esp. with newer OSes (esp. Leopard) coming with backup-to-disk options nowadays.

RIP CD. This must’ve been how it felt for my old man to say goodbye to the record or even the 8-track.