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I cant seem to trash anything. Seriously. I dont think i could get rid of it. I would ask a friend to store them for a while and maybe ship at a later date when finances are better or hold them until you move back (if you are going to)

Everything is crap, possibly; even external disks fail. The only certainty is in redundance, as one must be really unlucky for all of the copies to fail at the same time.

@lefty: I would NOT throw it all away. Microstock is constantly changing and you MAY need to upload to a new agency in the future, possibly one which doesn't even exist yet - who knows? I'd copy everything to a 2 TB hard drive as FD-regular says, and maybe keep DVDs as well and just throw away jewel cases to save space.

What about USPS for shipping? Doesn't seem too expensive http://www.usps.com/prices/

Thanks all. USPS, lol, where I am posted snail mail is a luxury. There is like one store that does everything. Computer is like a 286 and running water is amenities but don't touch the rose of the shower of you get electrocuted.
I have already left several storages of past arquivos with other friends in other outposts, and have not gone back there to pick them up, lol.
Which is why I am wondering if I should even worry about arquival storage.
FD your idea is cool. But I won't even have a computer to access that, no?
Micro, Race, I think I will just act like say  I lost everything in a fire and hopefully
I will not have to upload all over again . For my own sake, I hope Shutterstock and Istock will survive, and  when I come back to a more civilized place, ha!ha!
hopefully I will see I have money to collect.
Thanks all. I learned a lot from you all. Salut!

You left out flood, I had that once. My CDs after washing in clean water and drying, still work. So much for CDs will go bad in a year, scares. That was over ten years ago. Last I checked they were still fine.

But DVDs, the best, seem to self destruct while they are recording and get worse with time, losing data. I just won't trust a DVD without an external backup, which I suppose means, I don't like or trust DVDs at all. They are more of a back-up of the back-up, final emergency, last resort.

I have to agree that external is the best.

By the way, when I dump old computers, I save the Hard Drives, format them, fill them with backup materials (that no one will ever really want?) and write what's on them with a Sharpie. Nice way to have secure storage for "free". All it took was one external case that handles IDE drives. The age of the drives will match the size of the images and quality of the camera. 22-26 640x480 photos will fit on in MB of storage. (a floppy) So an old 20GB drive will save a massive amount of old photos. 3MP images are just over 1MB each... 20D 8MP images are about 2MB each.

The next computer I recycle will be a couple of 60GB drives, which will hold just about everything from the 10D and 20D, nice secure storage.

EMP? Lets hope not! 

With more details, I guess the answer is pack them up in boxes, within plastic boxes (Rubbermaid/Tupperware Etc.) and store them someplace secure and hope you don't need them. You can always ship the whole archive someday when the time dictates, or maybe never. But it's nice to know you saved them, in case of some critical need. Find a safe place in the dark corner of a cool dry basement. That would mean, not stored on the floor, but a top shelf, where they have the best chance of surviving. And hope you never need them!