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Budget 16GB USB sticks are a literally a couple of quid new these days, or less than £1 on aliexpress, and so much more convenient and reliable than fannying around with burning and trying to read BD-R discs...
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Probably true. Doesn't change the fact I got my pics back because I had CD backups of them. USB drives back in the early 2000s weren't cheap and I had a portable CD burner that copied my CompactFlash cards while I traveled.
Also, I don't use aliexpress and don't like the idea of buying malware on a stick and sending it to my folks. :)
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Budget 16GB USB sticks are a literally a couple of quid new these days, or less than £1 on aliexpress,
Many of them report 16GB free but stop being able to write after a few GB as they're just old 2GB drives with a firmware hack to make them look bigger.
hippy
Greenbank
Relying on them might be, but they still saved my ass as they were done before I had any cloud storage. They're also mega convenient for 'non-critical' backups or bunging stuff on a disc for a mate when you don't want to give them a whole drive or sending stuff overseas for the same reason.
I thought magnetic drives were more reliable (I'll still not use them myself) but then I did a quick google:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/five-years-of-data-show-that-ssds-are-more-reliable-than-hdds-over-the-long-haul/
What do you make of this?