I have mission critical data that needs to travel well, so the plan is to have copies on two flash drives in case one fails. Cloud storage is not an option.

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Needs to have very high quality memory chips, and be very resistant to the elements, shock, water etc.

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I don’t need a ton of storage, 16gb is fine and I don’t care much about the speed. Price is not an issue.

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Whats the best out there?

  • DTangent@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Buy an Optane 118G NVMe and put it in a waterproof USB enclosure. Search on Sargent rugged waterproof enclosure.

  • Zimmster2020@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Corsair Flash Voyager drives. You can play tennis with them and then dive into the Mariana trench with them around your neck if you wish.

    • Tweho@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      One point of failure, and not super portable. But I appreciate the thought!

      • Party_9001@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        One point of failure

        And a USB isn’t?

        and not super portable

        Realistically though, an external SSD is probably a better bet overall than a USB. Decent enclosure costs ~$60 plus the cost of whatever ssd you put in it. You said best, so optane is still pretty high up on that list

        • Tweho@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I’d need to buy two. I said money isn’t an issue but scaling down a 3.2tb drive to 16gb seems a bit ridiculous. Wouldn’t that money be better spent on an enclosure? Reason I asked for USB is because I can easily fit them in small storage places and can fit in my pocket.

  • therocketlawnchair@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I follow the idea. Two is one and one is none. Buy three flash drives and copy your data onto all three. Flash drives are fairly cheap and if you end up losing one due to failure or other reasons, buy a new drive locally and copy your data on it. Are you going on a safari or something?

    • Tweho@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I think i’m going to go with two Corsair voyager gt’s as mentioned in another comment and two sandisk extreme pros in a pelican case at two locations (one of each type at two locations).

      Barring an act of god, that should be sufficient.

      Thanks!

  • definitlyitsbutter@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Buy a brandname M.2 SSD in low capacity variant and put it in an external case. A bit bigger then a thumbstick, but not as big as an 2,5hdd. If the casing fails (breaking of the usb port for example) you can switch the drive to another case or put it internal in a pc.

    A bit more pricey solution, but usb thumbdrives get mostly the lowest quality flash chips.

    so an icy box IB-1817M-C31 case is around 30€, add an 128 or 256 gb m2 nvme SSD for around 20€.