On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz: >> It has been sitting in my "backed up" bin for over a year. I >> backed up something to it and now it is dead. >> >> Typically I back up something important with a double backup, On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 19:59 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > Yeah there's a Microcomputer Center near me. I sooner suspect it's > just a bad luck defect rather than fake flash. But also, some flash > out there will lose data when on the shelf too long. I never use flash drives for any kind of backup purposes. The things have multiple failures (wearing out, electronic breakdown, static electricity, mechanically falling apart, getting scrambled by a PC with poor 5Vdc power supplies on the USB ports, getting reformatted by a computer that couldn't read their file system, and simply getting lost). And they're often too small, or their filesystem can't handle large files. I consider them only good for sneakernet purposes. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 30 15:51:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
