23 Feb
2015
23 Feb
'15
10:02 p.m.
Like for everything else there are various qualities in USB sticks.
Perhaps I have been extremely lucky up to now... but never had any problem!
In times I had more trouble with DVD's and burners than with USB keys:
. burn a DVD for someone and then it cannot be read on her PC or
DVD player (heads alignment)
. a scratch on the medium -> you are done :-(
I rolled once on an USB stick with my chair and it still works! I doubt
a DVD had survived this attack.
Not taking the price in account: this is a rewritable device - perhaps
not forever but all depends on how long you want to keep your data...
I recently read an interesting article about this: your data can safely
be written for the eternity but... in ten years there will be no device
to read it!
As an example, try to find a brand new PC with a disquette reader...
Regards,
midi-pascal
On 15-02-23 04:33 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2015 21.54:54 midi-pascal
wrote:
Sorry to intrude but...
Did you ever thought using USB keys?
It costs (almost) nothing, it is fast and you can rewrite the medium as
often as you want!
Here in canada you can find a 64Gb USB stick in supermarkets under CAN
50.00$
I have made my backups on USB sticks (not even compressing the data)
with rsync for years without any problem.
I bought 4 64Gb sticks and rotate them.
I had to restore some times and never had any problem.
Just wanted to add a view on an easy storage medium here...
midi-pascal
No reson to be sorry. But I've seen to many USB keys die, they are
cheap and
unliable. M-Discs are said to be good for 500 years... although I'll be dead
long before anyone knows if that's true :)
Thierry
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