Will Your Photos Last a Thousand Years? - Comments Page 2

You need the device and the media. Every 5 or 6 years, move all important archives to current technology. Regardless, our kids will likely never be able to use our 'electronic version only' copy of our past. Really important stuff (music, books, art, law and history) must be maintained by an publicly trusted and maintained archive facility. Many private, non-profit arts organizations have already lost entire libraries of 8mm and reel to reel audio archives. DVD will be no safer without government sponsored archives.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Government sponsored archives??? I don't recall anything about that in the enumerated powers listed in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

Digital, Optical, Bah! The solution is in your first paragraph Bob. "I was looking at a photo of my great-great-grandparents, which was taken in about 1870." 146 years and you can still look at it without some high tech device.
Print it on paper. Make paper copies (backup) and distribute them to those who would be interested in having them. Then properly store the prints.

Every M-Disc burner for which I could find details such as on Amazon said that the burner was good for XP, Vista, 7 and maybe 8 or even 8.1, but none mentioned Win 10! Why? Mfrs run out of enthusiasm?

EDITOR'S NOTE: If it works on W7 or W8, it should work on W10.

I have some 100MB zip disks packed away somewhere, that were the be all/ end all long term file storage solution. I appreciate the technology, but in my opinion, cloud storage is the only long term solution that makes sense. M-Disk seems like a great product, but 10 years too late.