Bobby. wrote on May 2
nd, 2014 at 10:58pm:
You can store 9 GBytes of photos on a DVD -
just burn some DVDs.
I used to do that, when I took less photos and had a 4 mega pix digi cam.
But now I have a 24 mega pix camera, about 15mb a photo.
Trouble is, I have one external hard drive with photos that have filled 1 TB.
And this damaged one, has 500gb of photos.
As a DVD has about 4.7 gb (where do you get the ones that store 9gb?) anyway, divide 9 gb into 500 gb, that's a lot of discs!
What worries me about the CD's is that they can corrupt also and the computer may not be able to read them.
Usually they last approx 5 years.
Unless you buy the expensive gold infused ones, that have archival of 100 years.
In 100 years, what technology will be able to read them then?
Even in 30 years from now?
I have found, even with our old negatives, unless you have a scanner (as I do) to scan them onto your computer, it will cost you now, about $1 per negative to be printed from the camera stores.
It is becoming a bit of an exclusive thing.
And that is what will happen with CD/DVDs.
Hard drives, and usb sticks, and sd cards, look how far they have come in a short while, and things will change for different medias
I went and asked why is it, when I put photos onto a usb stick, with some videos I had taken with my dslr, and put the usb stick in the usb port on the back of the 'smart tv' it only shows the photos and not the video.
Get an answer something like......different file reading, have to change the video files.
And PS......even the usb sticks are changing from this 2.0 number to 3.0 number to be faster etc.
So all the ones that are 2.0 are being sold off so cheaply at present.
I did ask if I could store the photos on the usb sticks (like a 62 mg one) and the answer was sort of vague and unsure, as it hadn't been proven if it is stable for that as yet.
Hmmm...how about I just leave the photos on the sd cards and keep buying new sd cards!
Tiny little things....the dog would chew it in a flash if I dropped it accidentally...and it would be something like...."oh no, there was 100 years of our family historical photos on that!!!"