Can anyone suggest a VERY high quality usb stick drive?
Hello. Can anyone suggest a high quality made usb stick drive brand that lasts at least 80+ years that I can buy? Many that I found at my store only sells sticks made from china. I know high quality products are made from Germany, Japan, or even the USA. But not many brands are made from those great countires. I know storage media doesn't last forever, but its possible to make them last a long time. :?
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http://www.corsair.com/en/usb-drive/fla ... rives.html
Not made in japan, but would probably last for a while.
What do you plan to do with it? Do you plan to be using it for the entire 80 years (unlikely) or do you plan to use this as part of some kind of time capsule?
Lol seriously, you should know by now that all storage is fickle, and is never permanent. You can also buy one card that lasts 50 years, and another card of the same module that lasts 3. It's just how drives are, and how storage works. So just keep more than one backup, and every few years, replace your oldest backup drive. And also- go solid state if you're THAT afraid of losing your data.
If you're really concerned about backups failing, just make sure to backup to multiple places. For example, get both a flash drive and an external hard drive, backup to both and store one off them off site, for instance in a safe deposit box at the bank.
Personally, I prefer to use ext3 on volumes I need to be able to trust. It's older, but it's tried and tested, and there are tons of existing tools for data recovery if that should ever be necessary. I would not use FAT32 as that's not a journaling filesystem. Journaling filesystems will be better in the longrun for data reliability.
FAT32: Solid across the board support-wise in all 3 OSes but there's the 4GB size limitation.
exFAT: Supported on Windows XP SP3+ and OS X 10.6+, free drivers still shit on Linux. 512TB max volume size.
NTFS: OS X and Linux write support buggy with NTFS-3G, overhead from journaling and permissions/metadata that you won't need on a recovery system/fresh install.
extX: OS X support non-existent, buggy IFS driver for Windows. Overhead as with NTFS.
HFS+: ew. why does apple still use this?
But, my question, why is there no decent ext driver for Windows or MacOS X? I can see it being difficult to make one for Windows, seeing it's a very closed OS, especially with file system drivers.. and to add to that, I'm pretty sure there's not an easy way to use FUSE on it either. (Correct me if I'm wrong) But on OS X, it's a Unix based system, and there is FUSE support. Why is it still buggy, when EXT is an open file system?
There are ext3 / 4 drivers for Windows... I can't remember what it's called, but I use it on my laptop so I can read / write to my Linux partition. It mounts as a normal drive in My Computer.
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/08/access-e ... ns-in.html
Yup, that's what I have on my laptop. It works rather well, I haven't had any issues with it.
Comes in 16, 32, and 64GB capacities, relatively cheap (under $1/GB), limited lifetime warranty, and the fastest on the market.
Benchmark from my own 32GB version with a USB 3.0 port.
As is typical of NAND flash, write speeds on the 16GB version are about half the 32GB (~55 MB/s) and the 64GB version has write speeds that are around double the 32GB version (~200 MB/s). Read speeds between the different models should be roughly the same.
I do have a SanDisk usb stick drive. However, it's only the CruzGlider 32 GB version. Unfortunately, those are made in China; I wonder why RadioShack sold it for only $20 when it's on sale?
So basically, computers are machine and hand made?