On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 08:46:55PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > On 08/23/2016 08:27 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > > Poking around online I noticed sd cards are large and inexpensive. This > > plus it's omnipresence seems compelling. Slide one into the side of my > > laptop and local storage triples. > > > > Safe bet to buy a few of these? > > I would suggest you be religious about your backups: consider them a > REdistribution medium--from you back to you, not as a storage medium. I have > had cards die on me multiple times over the years, including a 32GB Samsung > microsd card within the last year. Maybe full-sized SD cards are better, but > I am skeptical.
I agree with all of this. I have a 128GB microSD card for music storage in my tiny little MP3 player - but if it goes, I will buy another and merely be sad about the amount of time it takes to select the music to put on it. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
