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    by wcquan ·

    What is the best way to store digital video? Disks have a limited life.

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      by hal 9000 ·

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      While I personally do not do this I do work for some companies who do exactly this sort of thing and they store their Digital Video on a HDD that is not in a computer but generally goes into a USB caddy and once the video is moved across they remove the drive and place it in a safe.

      Both Tape and CD/DVD are not a reliable storage method as they start to degrade after several years and shorter if not treated properly so the people who do this professionally use a HDD and write in the actual disk case what is stored on the drive and then place it in a safe area where there are no magnetic fields that can adversely affect the drives. These are also in a fireproof safe so that if there is a fire the chances of loosing the data is minimized.

      Col

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      by korgmeister ·

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      beside HDD, you might want to consider to use Solid State Disk..

      http://www.bitmicro.com/
      the price of that kind of hardisk is going to be astronomical lol..

      mostly it is use by government for nuclear research program and such..

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      by thechas ·

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      While it is true that many if not most recordable optical disks are not reliable for long term storage, you can get archival quality blank CD-R and DVD-R disks.

      One US source is:

      http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/servlet/OnlineShopping?Dsp=20000&PCR=30000:200000:207000

      Light Impressions also sells a variety of other archival supplies for long term storage of data and documents.

      Even older low speed CD-R disks (12X and less) when recorded using an older CD-RW drive have a significantly longer shelf life than the current crop of cheap high speed disks.

      Chas

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      by houxf ·

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      gggggg

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      by 3xp3rt ·

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      My opinion the most secure storage is the tape drive. But for secure you can save both to tape and optical media storage.

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      by nz_justice ·

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      You could but the digital video on an External HDD, If you dedicate the HDD to back up only should have long life (40 years)

      Or get a nas box or san or tape drive.

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