I'm at the point where I'm thinking about getting a dedicated hard drive and putting as many rare/hard to find documentaries on it as I can find just for preservation purposes.
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If you're planning on that, what you want isn't a single hard drive, but a redundant array of independent disks. It's called a RAID array and new egg will help you buy one.
Please archive local papers, posters, and relevent church flyers from past 200 years as well. The language used and context cannot be denied or whitewashed.
If you're super keen, learn about how to setup a NAS with ZFS (don't need to be an expert). It can tolerate multiple disk failures and correct errors. To go further, partner up with a friend (or several) and keep two (or more) geographically separated copies in sync. I can elaborate if you want
I remember after the first election that NOAA and NASA were sending out all the information they had to agencies around the world just to make sure it wasn’t wasted
I believe I saw something about this same thing happening again in preparation. I think we might be surprised how prepared so many agencies already are this time. Most have been making plans for the last four years incase he won again. Smart of them! But sad it has to be done.
These sorts of disseminated "micro-libraries" will be crucial for the survival of uncompromised media. We will still need forensics, but having as many "og" media files as possible can help!
Two weeks ago I was trying to find Rosie Perez’s documentary “Yo soy Boricua, pa'que tu lo sepas!” about Puerto Rico and the NYC PR community, and with the exception of a ripped copy on YouTube, it isn’t anywhere that I could find. The YouTube copy could disappear whenever, which would be sad.
No, it's actually different. Under testing, M-Disc has much better archival properties. There's a decent discussion at Wikipedia citing independent testing results.
I see. The article could use some elaboration on this glassy carbon layer though :)
But I suppose it makes sense to replace the default polycarbonate with a more durable material.
I can't find any details on the glassy carbon layer myself, but it substitutes for organic chemical dyes in the more common recordable optical media. Those dyes are fugitive – they fade. In accelerated aging testing, the mdisc clearly does have better archival properties.
For more technical details of glassy carbon as an information storage medium, we would have to go to the patents and perhaps the material science literature. There don't seem to be any easily available summaries for the non-expert.
One thing I keep harping on is people should really start making a concerted effort to buy more physical media and/or save it on a local storage drive. Streaming and media platforms have showed that they're happy to purge entire chunks of their archive at the drop of a hat.
Wholeheartedly agree, it's been a mission of mine for the better part of a decade now. And when I upgrade media, e.g. HD > 4K, I always try my best to make sure the older one goes to someone who will actually appreciate it or at least can use it constructively.
I already do this, and can share libraries using Jellyfin so others can watch too 😊 one drive is usually not the best approach, they all fail eventually - an array with redundancy is the way forward. this was you can replace drives as they fail without any data loss, and things should last.
I recommend starting with an entry-level Synology 2-drive enclosure. Configure it RAID 1 (mirrored drives). Install Plex. Run your own media server. Share with your friends.
At minimum yes, but a 4-bay is more efficient. And aHarddrive which is connected via usb for Backups when it is powered on. A NAS is no Backup, just Storage. 4-Bay are great for Raid-5 (2-3drives Data 1 safety). A Terramaster F4 (4bay) isn't that expensive compared to a F2 (2bay)
Just a question do you use an SSD to an older style hard drive for storage? I read someone say that the SSD can go bad if it's not powered on enough of the time. I'm not a technician just wondering and wanting to save a lot of old pictures.
never heard that about SSDs, but people still generally go for hard drives because the price per TB is lower and you dont need the speed to store stuff
A few years backI started priting PDF's of web pages I found useful or informative onto my local hard drive, I wish I had started sooner actually as I have loocked had for some information that i am SURE I read on the web before and can no longer find it no matter how hard I google.
I read somewhere recently that we will need to become our own archivist. Too many things are now on streaming and they can get rid of that shit whoever they want.
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Can't think of when I last burnt a DVD.
Works really well for my home setup. Can also function as a personal archive of stuff.
But I suppose it makes sense to replace the default polycarbonate with a more durable material.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1781611-REG/synology_2_bay_diskstation_ds224_compact.html
Nice cloud collection and access to all you might be looking for in documentaries.
Use a VPN.