On 8/21/25 5:15 PM, home user via users wrote:
Good morning,
(background)
* Something went wrong with a back-up to a USB-3.0 stick this past May.
Most everything was recovered, but not everything. I was told that the
stick itself was probably not what failed. There are a few other more
likely causes of the failure, but I cannot diagnose it. One major
possibility is that the desktop on which I was trying to read it damaged
some of the contents of the stick.
* Many of you might recall 3.5 inch (about 8.8 cm), 1.44 MB floppys from
back in the late 1980s. The disc cases had "a rectangular hole in one
corner which, if obstructed, write-enables the disk. A sliding detented
piece can be moved to block or reveal the part of the rectangular hole
that is sensed by the drive." (from wikipedia).
* For me, back-ups are written regularly, but searched or read rarely.
(So write speed is more important than read speed.)
I am looking for a way of doing back-ups such the media can be hardware
write-protected when wanting to find or recover something from back-up.
My back-ups are typically tens of gigabytes each, and I like to keep at
least 3.
(requirements)
* local (not cloud or other internet).
* at least 128 GB, more is better.
* write speed as good as or better than USB-3.2.
(very strongly preferred)
* write lockable and unlockable, just like them old 3.5 inch, 1.44 MB
floppys. Note that I want hardware locking and unlocking (like those
floppies), not software locking/unlocking (such as with command line
options).
(preferred)
* re-writable as opposed to write once only.
Honestly, 256GB thumb drives are so cheap as to be darned near
disposable. I would just grab a stack of these and do weekly backups or
something:
https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/usb-flash-drives/usb-3-1-flash-drive-bar-plus-256gb-champagne-silver-muf-256be3-am/
They're not lockable, but... for that amount of disk space, I'd just
rotate one per week or something, and put the others in a fire safe.
Even if you get hit with a catastrophic ransomware attack, you'll only
lose a week of data at home.
It's low tech as heck, but cheap and very effective. I remember lockable
USB drives, but that was YEARS ago. I haven't seen them lately at all.
--
Thomas
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