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<blockquote data-quote="DocWatson" data-source="post: 54822" data-attributes="member: 112"><p>Thumb drives are fine for transporting data and sharing data. But for backups they flat out suck. Aside from all the other problems noted, they have a nasty habit of just failing for no apparent reason and without warning. While there are lots of inexpensive or free data recovery programs out there that do an OK job, the best choice for a critical backup is to burn it to a CD or DVD periodically. External hard drives are mechanical and can fail. Portable hard drives are nothing more than large thumb drives and they also can fail. Unless you want to do it over, the best policy for critical data backups is redundancy and a hard copy written to removable media and updated periodically.</p><p></p><p>IMHO, of course. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DocWatson, post: 54822, member: 112"] Thumb drives are fine for transporting data and sharing data. But for backups they flat out suck. Aside from all the other problems noted, they have a nasty habit of just failing for no apparent reason and without warning. While there are lots of inexpensive or free data recovery programs out there that do an OK job, the best choice for a critical backup is to burn it to a CD or DVD periodically. External hard drives are mechanical and can fail. Portable hard drives are nothing more than large thumb drives and they also can fail. Unless you want to do it over, the best policy for critical data backups is redundancy and a hard copy written to removable media and updated periodically. IMHO, of course. :) [/QUOTE]
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