Saving Your Digital Memories

Are you fun of taking pictures? How do you save your images? Do you directly save it to your hard drive? Do you have a backup of these files? These are questions that need to be considered if you want to keep your digital memories forever.

Backing up your digital memories is very essential. Back ups function like a data insurance. It gives protection to the works you do in your computer. No matter how advanced the technology right now, these machines are still vulnerable to theft, viruses, malfunctions and other technology related failures.Hence, these images could be gone forever if you dont have a back up.

So, how do you save your digital memories? A number of storage devices are now coming out in the market. These storage devices can vary from CDs to DVDs, to USB disks and online storage facilities.

Here are some devices to consider for your digital memories to last longer.

Compact Discs (CDs). Current technology offers an inexpensive solution the CD writer. CD writers use inexpensive compact disc recordables (CDR) media which offer large data storage up to 700MB, fairly fast access, low cost, and portability. Manufacturers even claim that CD-R discs will last for decades without developing errors or degrading your data.

A Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) is another media to best consider for your back up. A DVD can hold more data than a CDR. A single layer DVD can hold as much as 4.7GB. There are some claims that DVDs can store movies and other files from 50 to 300 years or even longer. Who is rightful to claim such????

Here is the latest optical media. Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world's leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs will offer consumers an unprecedented HD experience (blu-ray.com).

Never wait to loose your most precious digital memories. Create a back up now!