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Old May 18th 18, 02:03 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Keith Nuttle
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Default USB thumb drives.

On 5/18/2018 8:52 AM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-05-17 22:59, Jason wrote:
In article ,
lid says...
Â* it's true that some are, but definitely not all.


"to a first approximation"


That's two significant figures...

-Â* sure, some isn't but why
take the chance?


Precisely (er, um, not ;-) )


I think depending completely on thumbdrives for back up is foolish,
however using a thumb drive as a temporary back up would be acceptable.
When considering the cost of a thumbdrive, the cost of a disk, and the
value of the data, there is no cost difference.

I have two computers and an external drive. The data on the two
computers is synced so both computers have the same information. In
addition the one computer is backed up using the Windows 10 File History
to an external disk.

When Travelling where I collecting a lot of data, I maintain back the
data up to an Card or thumbdrive. If I really have a lot of data, I
will back up the data to my computer, a thumbdrive and to a card.




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