On 12/31/21 20:35, Tim via users wrote:
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz:
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.
I use and sell flash drives for backup, but only Samsung's. The rest are a joke. https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/usb-flash-drives/ Samsung is also the only flash drive I have come across the can handle a storm on small file transfers. Speaking of 'a storm on small file transfers", I have a fully bootable Fedora 35 install on one of them. Tried doing it on other brands and it trashed them. A total waste of time. The getting lost is an issue. So far only one customer has lost one. Usually they put them on some kind of key chain and store them in a fireproof media safe. _______________________________________________ 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
