Ask Slashdot: Best Offline Storage Method For Large Archives? 397
An anonymous reader writes "I have a collection of large projects (Indesign files with associated images), which are typically 40GB to 60GB each. In this current climate, what is the 'best' method of archiving these? Spinny magnets? Solid state drives? USB? Tape? Blu-ray? All have pros and cons and price considerations. If I remove the price issue (my data is important to me), does this change the choice?"
Re:Rotational media (Score:1, Funny)
Online storage makes no sense. Give data you obviously care about to a company who's going to implement the cheapest "backup" system they can get away with and won't give a crap if they lose your data because they're protected by their terms of service. That and uploading 60gigs of data would take forever let alone multiple sets of 60gigs.
Real solution (Score:5, Funny)
There are only 2 real solutions if you want real long term storage. The first is you become Linus and just dump it on a server and let the rest of the world back it up, and the second is you make your data a religious text somehow. Because those guys with translate it for centuries to come, even if it means sitting 50 dudes in a room for 3 years with nothing but a feather, ink, and parchment.
come to think of it, same thing.