Monday, January 16, 2012

SanDisk's latest release is a device called the memory vault

One of the big worries when it comes to digital photography is that of permanence.  If your online host goes down or your hard drive crashes, you could lose hundreds or thousands of photographs.
SanDisk's latest release is a device called the memory vault.  It's an external hard drive that's capable of storing your data, completely uncorrupted, for 100 years.  That means that - barring any sort of technological breakthrough that lets us augment ourselves and live forever - your photos will live on longer than you do.
It’s risky to store your entire collection of photos on hard drives, because they’re most prone to failure among all types of storage media................
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