On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 00:02 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/31/19 8:05 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 19:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > All these things can also be done with a USB thumbdrive, which is
> > generally easier to create and faster to use.
>
> Well, not all. I wouldn't use one for back-ups.
Why not? They are multiple times faster and have a lot more space. If
you're concerned about reliability, make multiple backups. Over time it
will be much cheaper as well.
(And more environmentally friendly.) ;-)
Although I wouldn't personally use thumbdrives for backup, mainly
because of having to keep track of them, an external 1TB drive costs
under $50 and a 2TB under $65. That's equivalent to several hundred
DVDs in capacity and orders of magnitude faster in speed. Plus it's
read/write capable and can be used for incremental backups without a
lot of faffing around.
poc