Quote Originally Posted by Greg McCary
Have you thought about saving your stuff on a flash drive? The great little things that go on your keychain. I just bought one and it's 4 Gig. It will hold tons of pictures. I even washed mine in the washing machine by mistake and it survived. I read that a DVD/CDR has a short shelf life 5 to 8 years. I save to them, but don't rely on them. I try a take all of my pictures of my kids with 35mm film. Negatives have a very long shelf life, many years beyond me.
Flash memory only has a 10-20 year storage life, because the electrons on the caps, can leak due to any type of radation, like x-rays or cosmic radation. The smaller the caps on the IC's the shorter the self life. But some magtenic madia does have a hundred year shelf life.