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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Own-Employment-1640 on 2024-09-19 05:23:05+00:00.

I was looking through a bunch of slides from the 1960s. All of them in perfect condition — Kodachrome really is amazing.

It got me thinking, how should I archive my current photos? Right now, I have a few hard drives I back up to. Two 8tb HDDs in my computer, and two 4tb external HDDs. They are all around half full right now, and I make sure to always have two copies of all my photo file folders on different hard drives.

What I am concerned about is the longevity of this system. If I were to die, these hard drives would either go bad over time or get dropped or wiped. This would not happen with the Kodachrome Slides.

I have been considering archiving to Blu Ray discs for years, but never got around to doing it due to the sheer amount of files I will need to burn onto the Blue Rays.

I do not trust the cloud, as the Photobucket account of someone I know recently got deleted, losing all their photos.

I am also not willing to spend $1600 for 400 on clearance M-Discs.

Does a solution to my problem exist? Should I just only shoot film?