On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 00:02 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/31/19 8:05 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 19:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > All these things can also be done with a USB thumbdrive, which is > > > generally easier to create and faster to use. > > > > Well, not all. I wouldn't use one for back-ups. > > Why not? They are multiple times faster and have a lot more space. If > you're concerned about reliability, make multiple backups. Over time it > will be much cheaper as well. > (And more environmentally friendly.) ;-)
Although I wouldn't personally use thumbdrives for backup, mainly because of having to keep track of them, an external 1TB drive costs under $50 and a 2TB under $65. That's equivalent to several hundred DVDs in capacity and orders of magnitude faster in speed. Plus it's read/write capable and can be used for incremental backups without a lot of faffing around. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
