how many of you do this? is it a reliable way to store data?I'm thinking of carrying one of these metallic keychain usb drive along with my keys cause I've seen a few friends doing just that. It's not going to carry "critical" data like logins or money related info, mostly just creative work I'd really like to not lose. I just don't know how resistant these are to constant manipulation, being squished, in contact with the other keys, eventual water when it rains and motorcycle vibrations among other things.
>>107995715i keep a backup of my keepass file on it
>>107995715>are devices that were invented for storing data and are being actively used for storing data and have been used for decades for storing data a reliable way of storing data?i swear to god you fucking zoomers with your cloud storage bullshit >constant manipulation, being squishedyou've told us yourself they are metal what happens to metal when you squish it in your hand anon?>eventual water when it rainsare you planing on wearing them outside yor closes like a fucking dogtag?instead of your blood type its 64 Gb of hentai dangling on your neck?
>>107995715I have encrypted auto backups on a USB (vorta/borg), and those include my keepassxc databases, peronal pictures and everything elseI have another usb to which I periodically sync movies and assets (audio, vector art, document templates, etc)USBs are easy to carry and conspicous enough.
>>107995816>instead of your blood type its 64 Gb of hentai dangling on your neck?essentially yeahalso take your xanax anon
I don't know. You either have the spinning rust that can malfunction from mechanical issues or those things that just lose data over time and have limited write cycles. Pick your poison.
>>107996162>take your xanaxive already spend all my money on protein and vitaminsalso i dont hate my liver>essentially yeahif you are not afraid of looking "cringe" you should put that thing into something waterproof, like a bag or a box of sortsor maybe make some sort of a rubber coverunless they sell the waterproof versions of these >>107996208you choose dvd discs insteadbut thats not his use case
>>107995715It's handy to always have a USB stick with you in case you need it.But I would never rely on it for backups.Anything important should be backed up online, just use encryption if you don't trust it.In combination with a local copy at home there isn't much that could go wrong.
>>107995715>his flash drive doesnt have a foreskinlol
>>107995715I don’t use usb. I have a spare broken iPhone I airdrop a few files into. And a 30 digit passcode to get into it. I don’t have much. Just my taxes, my keepass database, and like 2 photos. no one can get into it unless maybe Israel gets it, unlike usb which lets u plug it into anything and if it breaks well tough shit that’s why I’m not using it and it’s stored away somewhere safe. I check up on it every once in a while
>>107995715as long as you do a proper backup (have one copy of your shit in the flash drive and another on your local machine) i guess it's alrightthere was this guy who had his own implementation of dynamic arrays in C that carried around so there's that
