Personal Media Storage and Sharing
What does this mean?!?!
When I (Joshua Radke) started Radke Land, I wanted to be able to find a permanent, sensible solution to the piles of digital pictures and movies our family kept generating. Some of the "solutions" that people use are:
- Put them on your Hard Disk
- Burn them to a CD
- Put them on a thumb drive
- Print them out
While the above list seems like it would help to keep your pictures safe, the truth is that it won't! Hard disks die. Sometimes they die sudden, horrible deaths. This is much worse than the old way of keeping photo albums. What if you knew your photo album could suddenly, at any moment, disentegrate into a pile of ash? Suppose you knew that it would probably not do this in less that five years, so you could just buy a new photo album when it got close ... see where we're going with this?
The same problems apply to burning them to a CD, or putting them on a thumb drive. Printing them out almost seems the best solution, but you lose the accessibility of them being digital, and if you don't use a professional printer (machine and paper, or printing service), the quality is bound to degrade quickly. Finally, movies don't translate to paper well.
What's the solution?!?
Companies have had to deal with data reliability for years (including the one I currently work at and administer the systems for). No data is safe unless there are multiple copies of it, preferably in multiple locations. Radke Land runs nightly backups (or will soon, when the whole RMA mess is sorted out), and will take old backups off site every 4 to 8 weeks or so. So the data is safe from disaster.
Radke Land will be developing a media management system (there's tons of work to do), which allows each individual user to save their digital content, sort it how they like (date, keywords for each pictures, etc.), and eventually set viewing permissions for any other member of Radke Land. What could be better?
Watch this page, as there's lots to do, and we'll provide updates as they become available.
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