Comment by 8fingerlouie
4 days ago
Except, they're not.
They're in iCloud, backed up to my NAS at home, backed up to another cloud vendor, backed up to two different external hard drives, stored in separate locations, as well as archived on Blu-Ray M-Disc media, also identical copies, stored next to the external hard drives.
They're not exactly "great quality" most of them, us being early adopters of digital cameras (2000'ish), so 1.5 megabit, up to 3.5 megabit for our last "real" digital camera. There are some Canon EOS 500D SLR photos in there as well, but we continued to shoot our old an trusty analogue SLR cameras for years after that.
These days it's all phone pictures anyway. I don't think I have more than a handful of SLR quality photos of the kids.
> Blu-Ray M-Disc
Any brand/size of discs you recommend?
I've been using Verbatim all these years, but truth be told, I'm considering stopping.
Blank media is becoming harder and harder to come by, and prices have increased to 2-4x of what they were.
For now at least, I have enough media to fill out the next couple of years, 1 year per 100GB disc, and we'll see where we are by then. My prediction is that it won't be any easier to archive to optical media by then. If you need proof, just check your local DVD/Blu-Ray vendor for latest copies of movies/shows.
I know Sony and others are working on 1TB size discs, but they're all "enterprise archiving", so probably not within price range of consumers.