USB memory advice

Since @Swan55 mentions a PC based music library I assume that the USB memory device will hold a copy of that data, which will be backed up in the same way as every other data on said PC.

No big deal.
 
slartibartfast said:
Do you think everyone backs up PC data? 🤔
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Obviously people should ensure that they backup everything that is important and, if we are talking Windows, the easiest way is to use One Drive but IIRC that doesn't include your "Music" folder by default.

Using a USB stick or even an SSD for music storage is all well and good but USB's, no matter who manufactured them, are prone to issues particularly if they are frequently plugged and unplugged. There must be a point - library size wise - when it simply makes total sense to go the NAS route and use some more powerful Music Server software and the inbuilt backup options that exist in most NAS.

When a WiiM indexes a USB stick where does it store that index? Is it on the device it is attached to?
 
Skull said:
Backups on one drive music library backed up on 4 external hard drives also my astell and kern dap has the full library 😊
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What annoys me about One Drive is that it's a pain to separate the things you want to be backed up and everything else. I often find One Drive is nearly full just because I am working on vinyl rips and they have ended up in a backed up folder ☹️
 
slartibartfast said:
What annoys me about One Drive is that it's a pain to separate the things you want to be backed up and everything else. I often find One Drive is nearly full just because I am working on vinyl rips and they have ended up in a backed up folder ☹️
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Nearly all IT professionals I know switch off the Desktop backup in One Drive but leave Documents and perhaps Pictures - they use Desktop as a transient store. My vinyl rips go to somewhere outside the scope of One Drive altogether and my resultant FLACs go to my NAS which has a backup strategy involving another offsite synchronised NAS.
 
d6jg said:
If you backup the entire stick and re-write to a new USB stick is that file still valid do you know?
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Don’t know tbh - guess it depends on whether the WiiM detects that it’s a different usb stick and if so, may want to re-index. One for WiiM to answer I’d think…
 
d6jg said:
Nearly all IT professionals I know switch off the Desktop backup in One Drive but leave Documents and perhaps Pictures - they use Desktop as a transient store. My vinyl rips go to somewhere outside the scope of One Drive altogether and my resultant FLACs go to my NAS which has a backup strategy involving another offsite synchronised NAS.
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I must do that. Desktop is the worst.
 
slartibartfast said:
Do you think everyone backs up PC data? 🤔
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Is that important? ;) I chose my words carefully.

All this discussion is nice and well but the question was not about how and why to backup data but simply which USB memory devices could be recommended for using the WiiM Ultra's music server.
 
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harkpabst said:
Is that important? ;) I choose my words carefully.

All this discussion is nice and well but the question was not about how and why to backup data but simply which USB memory devices could be recommended for using the WiiM Ultra's music server.
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That is true but it really isn't very sensible to simply rely on the reputation of a USB stick manufacturer without due regard for a disk failure in any event. We don't need to continue any discussion about how to backup now the point has been made :)
 
rccarguy said:
Usb sticks aren't reliable backup medium
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Oh yeah, for reliability -- tape drives!
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d6jg said:
You say that but they are still used in a lot of scenarios and for good reason.
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Agreed... reliability can be taken to the absolute best there is. But this is a consumer electronics forum for normal folks so just having some fun 🙂
 
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