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So im having problems with my thumb drive. Is it dying?
I copy movies to it, check later. They are not there. Sometimes it takes me 5 tries before they show up.
Delete stuff of of it and they magically appear later during the day.
Sometimes the files i copy become corrupt and i can not open them.
Someone told me that they have a "shelf life" so to speak. I have a couple that I store pix etc on. Will I have to replace them even if I don't use them all the time?
Someone told me that they have a "shelf life" so to speak. I have a couple that I store pix etc on. Will I have to replace them even if I don't use them all the time?
Thumb drives are for transferring files. I wouldn’t use one as a quasi-permanent storage solution. You should get an external hard drive for that.
What happened to saving data/pictures/music on CD/DVD's? I still remember saving onto floppy disks...
CDs and DVDs are great if you organize your data so that no folder is bigger than a disc and have all day to feed your computer blanks. BluRay is the only optical media that's even remotely big enough to store data today but they're still super slow compared to hard drives.
What happened to saving data/pictures/music on CD/DVD's? I still remember saving onto floppy disks...
All depends on the size of your data, if it'll fit on a couple disks (CD, DVD, DVD-DL, BR) it's fine, something like a system image won't work very well.
Flash drives have a limited number of reads/writes, so I've been told. I've had a few fail, so I don't use them for permanent storage.
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