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Flash drive or memory card for back up storage?

Jul 4, 2006 5:21PM PDT

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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How about CD or DVD backup ? Flash drives and Memory.
Jul 4, 2006 10:03PM PDT

cards are not immune to corruption, failure, loss, damage or theft.

VAPCMD

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IF there is a write protect tab...
Jul 5, 2006 1:58AM PDT

Then you have one backup. Since you may have only one memory stick, then while you are backing up to that one device a power outage, lightning strike or other bad thing can happen.

Where's the 2nd backup copy?

-> This issue is widely discussed. To really get serious we need 3 backup copies to rotate through. When one fails we have 2 until we replace/fix the one that failed.

Bob