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| Thread ID: 96857 | 2009-01-26 09:29:00 | USB pen drive as back-up | borax (7078) | Press F1 |
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| 742172 | 2009-01-27 09:33:00 | I have somehow managed to wipe a hard drive connected via USB so I wouldn't consider that to be ideal for critical backups either. :blush: | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 742173 | 2009-01-27 20:20:00 | USB drives have limited write cycles too. If you are going to do that then use a real 2.5" or 3.5" external hard drive. With a Western Digital drive in it. Do you really think your external hard drives will last long enough to match 100,000 write cycles? Back up isn't the same as scratch drive. Th external drives will get moved around and knocked to death long before they would wear out. |
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| 742174 | 2009-01-27 20:25:00 | I still have a Zip drive, used rarely, but it has not failed in eight years. Make sure the data on your Zip disks is also somewhere else before your magic Zip drive is the last to fail. |
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