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Hi guys, im looking to keep important files backed up somewhere other than a cloud drive or external hdd. Cant afford SSD so im considering Flashdrives or SD Cards. What would you recommend? Any specific brands to consider?
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Flashdrive vs SD card for backup (advice please!)
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It depends whether you want your backups on a flash drive or memory card. A memory card seems slightly more reliable to me, as I have had flash drives randomly start giving major issues.
You could backup for free if you just used a different cloud service to your usual one. Mega is a great option. Very secure and 50GB storage space.
You could backup for free if you just used a different cloud service to your usual one. Mega is a great option. Very secure and 50GB storage space.
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
Yeah answer this first...
turbochargd
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20gb to 50gb (pics,clips,documents) hence why im considering either flashdrive or SD card...
What's wrong with just having an external hard drive used for general purpose backups? Quality 64GB memory cards and flash drives aren't cheap.
Quality in terms of memory cards pertains as much to speed as it does to anything else. Since you can pick up a 32gb class 10 SD card for under R200 it's not really a bad option as long as you buy two.
I had a 128gb Verbatim usb stick I bought in September die on me the other day and it was a bit of a schlep to back all that stuff up onto a second device but it had to be done. One copy on one device isn't a backup, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
I've got a stack of 20+ hard drives that I have to remember to spin up and check on a regular basis - if I could move all of that onto something that didn't rely on moving parts I'd be a much happier camper.
In personal experience memory cards and flash drives are so unreliable it's not even funny just 2 days ago my 64Gb Samsung drive failed on me.
Memory cards gets corrupted so often.
Rather save up buy a 500Gb harddrive not a desktop drive look for a western digital red/purple or Seagate equivalent and pop that into a 3.5" enclosure
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
Definitely, once they're on par with HDDs in terms of price and capacity.
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
Except he specified no SSDs .
KleinBoontjie
Honorary Master
Pics and clips, backup to Google Photos for free. Plus point is, that it's accessible from a lot of different devices.
What's the size of the docs, I guess it should be a small percentage of all that.
Uploading to Google photos isn't without potential pitfalls, especially if he shoots raw files and/or has a slow or capped internet. He might also not be keen on google's licensing terms.
KleinBoontjie
Honorary Master
I just re-read his OP, saw he prefers to go with flash or SD. I probably read to fast, or the subsequent post had confused me. Don't know why I thought he's open to cloud backup.
In any event, 20 to 50GB is going to be quite a few flash drives, also going to be costly. 50GB divided by 8GB equals 2.25. Rounded up equals 3. At R50 per 8gig (specials cheap stuff), that's R350. This sollution, don't give any redundancy. So, flash drive or SD backup isn't a very good idea/option.
Where's the days when a ZIP drive was a good investment. Will dual layer DVD's do the trick. Will get about 10 for R60.
Jola
Honorary Master
Nice 64GB flash drive for R389 :
http://www.takealot.com/transcend-jetflash-810-rugged-flash-drive-64gb/PLID28061147
There are even cheaper models, but they have worse ratings.
http://www.takealot.com/transcend-jetflash-810-rugged-flash-drive-64gb/PLID28061147
There are even cheaper models, but they have worse ratings.