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    361 year ago

    USB sticks are not very reliable and can become totally unreadable randomly. I hope you at least have a few backups of it

    • @douglasg14b
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, they are horribly unreliable.

      I got myself 5 sticks, put the same data on all 5.

      1st was dead within a month. 2nd & 3rd both dead in 4m, 4th dead in 6m. The 5th is still alive 3 years later.

      It’s a shit lottery, don’t play it, modern flash drives are absolutely garbage. Yet I still have a whole pile of 1,2, 4 GB flash drives from over a decade ago and they all still work.

      • @jarfil
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        31 year ago

        Old flash drives used to be all SLC.

        Newer ones, use the cheapest tech for the same capacity, with QLC being about 16 times less reliable than SLC.

    • @Chickenstalker
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      81 year ago

      Carve it in granite and bury it underground so that future archaeologists can be confused over their meaning.

    • asudox
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      21 year ago

      At least better than the cloud.

    • @Aux
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      -11 year ago

      USB sticks can be very different. I would recommend using small M.2 SSD in a stick enclosure.