My wife just recently overloaded my primary comp. with pics. What she hasn't deleted, she'll be transferring them on a disc and downloading them to another comp.
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Stability shouldn't be a problem if you keep some memory available to "back it up" periodically.
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SD disks are the square ones that most of the cameras use now...
i can't find anything on how long they last, i was doing some reading on another project about capacitance when i read how they keep their "charge".
chip memory has to have a charge on it to keep it stable....
DRAM is what your computer uses and it's lost every time you turn it off...
Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is a type of random access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. Since real capacitors leak charge, the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically. Because of this refresh requirement, it is a dynamic memory as opposed to SRAM and other static memory.
The advantage of DRAM is its structural simplicity: only one transistor and a capacitor are required per bit, compared to six transistors in SRAM. This allows DRAM to reach very high density. Unlike Flash memory—which is non-volatile memory—, it is in the class of volatile memory devices, since it loses its data when the power supply is removed.
i would assume that you could simpy take your camera to your bank and put each chip in the camera and turn it on and access a single picture to make sure it stays charged... once a year at most... maybe a lot less...
15,000 pix is alot of pix... i am using a nikon set on high definiton and large size and i can put about 500 per gigabyte on a chip....
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I don't keep any apple stuff. Never much cared for it, since they came out with the very first marketed Apple computers. Had a guy write a prestressed concrete beam program for us on one back about 92 and I had to translate the damned thing to fortran. Didn't much care for the Apple language.
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What about storing them on DVD's? Would be portable, and no electronic parts, so you could store them in a safety deposit box like you said.
-------------------- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. Posts: 3311 | From: St. Louis | Registered: Feb 2005
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A normal DVD will hold just over 4GB's of data. But they also have some that hold over 7GB's of data. Depends on the size of his pictures as to how many he can get on each DVD.
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DVD is the way to go as far as your specific need. The data transfer will be about the same speed and you will only need to worry about scratches.. not protecting it from magnetic fields or having it lose charge over time.
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