Re: Using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup

2019-03-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 March 2019 12:25:50 Matthew Crews wrote: > On 3/18/19 6:30 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Is anyone (reading this list) using USB Flash / Pendrives or > > [micro]SD cards for backup? > > > > I've thought about doing that, especially as they continu

Re: Using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup

2019-03-18 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 19/03/2019 02:30, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone (reading this list) using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup? I've thought about doing that, especially as they continue to come down in price, but my experience with them at least in some cases has not been good

Re: Using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup

2019-03-18 Thread Matthew Crews
On 3/18/19 6:30 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Is anyone (reading this list) using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards > for backup? > > I've thought about doing that, especially as they continue to come down in > price, but my experience with them at least in som

Re: Using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup

2019-03-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/03/2019 à 16:17, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: USB Flash drives write data anywhere as they see fit, so some NAND cell blocks get more wear than others and could potentially fail at any time, rendering filesystem unusable and making files partially corrupted or lo

Re: Using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup

2019-03-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > USB Flash drives write data anywhere as they see fit, so some NAND cell > blocks get more wear than others and could potentially fail at any time, > rendering filesystem unusable and making files partially corrupted or lost. My way of using a rubber coated outd

Re: Using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup

2019-03-18 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 18.03.2019 18:30, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Is anyone (reading this list) using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards > for backup? > > I've thought about doing that, especially as they continue to come down in > price, but my experience with them at least in som

Re: Using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup

2019-03-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 09:30:13AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone (reading this list) using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup? I've thought about doing that, especially as they continue to come down in price, but my experience with them at least in some case

Re: Using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup

2019-03-18 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:30:13 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >Is anyone (reading this list) using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards >for backup? > >I've thought about doing that, especially as they continue to come down in >price, but my experience with them at lea

Using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup

2019-03-18 Thread rhkramer
Is anyone (reading this list) using USB Flash / Pendrives or [micro]SD cards for backup? I've thought about doing that, especially as they continue to come down in price, but my experience with them at least in some cases has not been good. The worst case seems to be dash cams where,