Dear dotPhotographers,
NASA has a consumer problem: how can it preserve photos and other information that might be found by other life forms on probes sent into deep space? NASA has tried plaques, records (including a stylus and instructions for constructing a record player), CDs and even a diamond wafer that would survive for billions of years.
Closer to home, who will be able to read today’s CDs ten years from now? It seems to me that a good backup plan for family media includes three choices: a book that is printed once a quarter, a CD or DVD backup in case a hard drive fails, and online storage, which removes information from the local environment and also provides additional media like voice, music and video.
dotPhoto’s RAID 5 servers have two other benefits: they are more reliable than your hard drive and, though digital technologies change from disk size to disk format to compression type, dotPhoto’s central servers continue to store data that can be read by new devices.
It can be difficult to find out about our ancestors. With a little diligence, our children’s children will have more information about us.
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