Backup to Thumb Drive

[Stephen]

i can speak for the memorex travel drives. i have 2 of them, they have
been through much more abuse than i should have let them endure,
including being washed repeatedly and dried.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com> wrote:
> While I'd have to agree that USB thumbdrives are better than they
> were, they are only good if you are not using them for mission
> critical backups... in my eyes.
> I'm not pulling these from numbers on the net, I'm pulling my info
> from the number of times I've had issues with thumbdrives during use
> both in work environments and personal.  All were sandisk brand.  I
> can't speak about buying an expensive one since I really can't see the
> point once the price goes to a certain height.
>
> I'm a picky bastard I bet :)
>
> Or just stenographically insert your data into a graphic through
> uuencoding piped to gimp somehow and cascade flicker with it ;)
> (yes, very, very, very far fetched and problematic but hilarious to think of)
>
> In the end, I guess it's all personal preference and draw the line
> where you desire and hope for the best.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Lund
>
> If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway,
> and should fix your program.
> --Linus Torvalds, Original Inventor of the Linux kernel
> August, 2006
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