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How safe is data on an USB flash drive?
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Dreamnine
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I know I should really have the data on a portable HD as well, to be safe, but I ask because I've got a 64GB flash drive and want to put the bulk of my music on it, and transport it this way to use friends' computers.
Are they pretty reliable? I've only had a 2Gb one before and somehow it got corrupted.
Are they pretty reliable? I've only had a 2Gb one before and somehow it got corrupted.
I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a Quaalude.
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It will take hours and hours to fill a 64 GB USB Flash Drive!
Provided you don't treat the drive as reliable long-term storage you should be OK.0 -
If its a cheap Chinese fake via ebay - it won't last a couple of weeks.
If its a well known brand, data might be safe on it but using it continuously to play music won't do its life span much good.
Solid state hard drive would have been better choice.0 -
It's a Lexar that I got in a second-hand shop for £35.I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a Quaalude.
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Second hand ouch!
Might be ok but really these things are not worth buying second hand.0 -
Well it seeems not to have been used, unless it was formatted but all the original software (security feature) was on it.
I have 42GBs of music on there and another 1Gb of ebooks.I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a Quaalude.
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The flash drive uses a read-write FAT32 filesystem, so its contents could become corrupted just like your hard drive.0
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Edit: probably too late for this, if you've already put ...42gb worth of music on it! Do you have a lot of FLAC?
Run Photorec on it and see what the previous user got up to
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Then do H2TestW to make sure it's not a fake and that it's working okay - this will help answer some reliability questions.
http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/h2testw-14-gold-standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/
Then use the official SDFormatter to get the most out of it speedwise
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/0 -
once bitten, twice shy
keep it on the c drive, and backup to flash!!
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