They could be little more use than coasters after just two years. via Rob Galbraith. Given that DVD's are likely to suffer similar problems what's a guy to do? Punch Cards? Seriously - I'm not sure how to keep my images around long enough to be my daughters problem. I don't really want to migrate from media to media every couple of years. Ideas?? I'm all ears.
Update: Scott Hanselman asks a similar question in The Problem of Persistence: Storing and Backing up One's Life a Gigabyte at a Time and gets some interesting replies including Wired Prairie - Backups. Is anyone out there using tapes? How long do they last? Including the hardware, is it cheaper than gigabytes of external hard disk?