USB memory advice

[hoohoohoo]

actually they are.

Also magnetic optical is probably most reliable.

Or perhaps laser engraved onto diamond slabs, encased in stasis field, in a underground bunker that is nuke proof.

Uh oh, we're at bunkers now. I think we blew swan55's budget

 

[slartibartfast]

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.

Just turned off Desktop backup and everything on my Desktop apart from shortcuts disappeared. I didn't expect that
Strange thing is, everything is still in my OneDrive Desktop folder but not on my actual desktop.

 

[Pcryan5]

Our PC based music library is approx 220gb with many more cd's waiting to be loaded.
We would like to copy them to a usb memory stick for plugging into our Ultra for playback.

I use a LaCie Mobile Drive 5TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD ($225CAD / 122 GDP) - works great - no idea how hot it gets as it sits on my delay and behaves itself.

 

[Pcryan5]

Two sticks should do it.

I back everything up offsite to cloud. As whose house burnt down once.

 

[reniro]

If you backup the entire stick and re-write to a new USB stick is that file still valid do you know?

yes it will work if the content is exactly the same. I've done that when switching from a 1TB m2 drive to a 2TB version.