While doing some photography reading, i came across some support for archiving photos, videos on SD Cards. The process looked like:
- Fill up SD Card with DSLR
- Share/publish any choice items via the PC
- Physically archive the SD Card
I would contrast this with my own method:
- Fill up SD Card with DSLR
- Move contents to PC's HDD to free up SD Card
- Archive data via traditional PC backup/archive mechanisms
While this makes good sense from a digital photography point of view, I wasn't sure how well it fit for standard PC archival. (This is why i post here instead of the photography stackexchange) Can anyone speak to the negatives of generic PC-based backup/archival via SD card?
- Is there anything that would limit my ability to retrieve data later?
- Are there any environmental concerns (moisture, heat, sunlight, etc.) that could cause things to break down?
Edit 1 - in doing some more research, i see that SanDisk has a SD-WORM product that is 100 year archival with (W)rite (O)nce (R)ead (M)any funtionality. What I didn't get was if that was available for purchase or the cost per GB.
Edit 2 - SD-WORM requires special readers/writers, and wouldn't be suitable.