cards are not immune to corruption, failure, loss, damage or theft.
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I want to buy 4 GB or so of storage to back up some files. My first inclination is to get a flash drive or small external, but I'm also considering just buying a couple of memory cards to back up on instead (my Vaio has an SD card slot built in). My first priority is protecting my data from being lost--I've heard so many horror stories about portable drives crashing. So my question is: is data stored on memory cards typically "safer" than on hard disks, or is the reverse true? Thanks!

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