this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
988 points (99.0% liked)
Technology
59605 readers
3498 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
USB sticks are not very reliable and can become totally unreadable randomly. I hope you at least have a few backups of it
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.
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.
Carve it in granite and bury it underground so that future archaeologists can be confused over their meaning.
"Great Scott! Jameson come look at this tablet! What does Amazon: BooberMcBoobtit@gmail.com 6942069 mean!?"
At least better than the cloud.
USB sticks can be very different. I would recommend using small M.2 SSD in a stick enclosure.