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
>>107995715I bought this exact same usb key as your pic, a Kingston G3 something I also have a rubber cover like picrel to put on the top, it's pretty tight and hold very well I backup my keepass, ID documents, insurance papers, config files, ssh keys, some work files, etc once a month everything is stored in a VeraCrypt container that I just transfer on the usb key pretty comfy
>>107995715I literally used to have a couple of these on a neck chain, with a dogtag, years and years ago.They're okay. Most still work.BUT, the quality of these things really varies.If you buy some fake Chinese """Kingston""" ""2TB"" USB stick, it'll probably be USB 1.0 speeds and only holds a couple GB in reality.Similarly, the build quality can vary quite a ton. At cheapest, they might be nothing more than an SD-card to USB adapter hot glued into a tiny steel box.But some actually legit, well done, single solid block of metal with a proper USB3 connector and proper memory? That'll last ya a life time.Get a rubber plug if you're worried about water.
