Backups?

[TxRad]

Actually, they only go bad after the maximum delete/write cycles have been exceed for all bits.

The original (first gen) flash drives only had a cycle of about 10,000 write/delete operations. Newer flash drives are in the millions of write/delete cycles. Reads cycles are free and cost nothing.

So todays flash drives would last about 50 years. I actually have a 32k bytes first gen flash drive that still works today. I may not use it often, but it will hold a story or two for transfer to other computers.

I used to lose them before they had a chance to wear out.

 

[Anomic]

I save to an external drive and also use dropbox

 

[joelafayette]

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