SanDisk Digital Film
An article by PCMagazine.com claims that SanDisk “plans to offer a cheap read-only memory card designed to store photos for 100 years.” The new cards would be aimed at retailers such as Walmart / Walgreen and would not be editable at all once they were full. Perhaps a surprising move from the world’s leading manufacturer of writable flash storage devices, or a canny move to target the cheaper, mass end of the market?



#1 simon
This is a great idea - an unalterable digital "negative" that you can archive for future generations. Not many of today's photos on CDs or hard drives will be around in 100 years time (or even in 10 years, come to that).
6:52 pm - Thursday, March 1, 2007
#2 wolfie
I think the idea has a lot of merit - but it totally depends on the price being enough to out weigh the economy of re-writable media - and thatpeoplebelieve card formats will be stable enough to be read their card in 10 or 20 years, let alone one hundred.
8:08 pm - Saturday, March 3, 2007