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Clouds are useless, if you have no Internet at your destination. I signed up at Pogoplug a while ago and now they are going off. So if you you miss the window to save your files for some reason, hospital or whatever, they are simply gone. It is now the second storage service I have used that goes off.Put it in the cloud
It can happen to any storage. For example if you remove a card form your phone while data is being transfered you risk to destroy the card.I've lost data on my USB drives a couple of times. Never on my SD cards that were in my camera. Luckily I had cloud backup.USB is more universal, that is the largest difference for me. You can go anywhere and USB will be available where SD card readers are far less likely. If you are only dealing with your own devices then such is irrelevant. USB is also far cheaper in my experience but that may have changed considering all the portable devices that use SD cards now.
I would expect the data stored on the chips to have longevity equal to or slightly better than that stored on USB thumb drives.My concern, however, is availability of the means to access the data a few years down the road. Chip readers in off-the-shelf computers are of more recent origin than USB ports so may be around a bit longer. Plus there are plenty of chip readers that can plug into various ports on computers and adapters can be cascaded when (not "if") USB ports are no longer standard.
I base this on seeing vast libraries of 2" video tape for which there are precious few VTRs left functional to play them back and copy them to newer formats.
I would not expect SD formats to outlast USB. Virtually everything is USB these days - it will stick around for decades. Every single computer has USB access, every phone charges through USB and essentially every device that has a SD card in it also has a USB connection. This is not true in the reverse. There are also several versions of chips.
USB is not going anywhere. SD cards will likely last a long time as well but they will disappear if a newer, better version cones out.
I think important data should be backed up in several ways. Disk, Flash, HDD, Cloud.Technically the most portable storage device is cloud storage, you can pretty much access your files anywhere from any device that has internet capabilities. As for the positives and negatives, that usually depends on each person.USB is more universal, that is the largest difference for me. You can go anywhere and USB will be available where SD card readers are far less likely. If you are only dealing with your own devices then such is irrelevant. USB is also far cheaper in my experience but that may have changed considering all the portable devices that use SD cards now.
I would expect the data stored on the chips to have longevity equal to or slightly better than that stored on USB thumb drives.My concern, however, is availability of the means to access the data a few years down the road. Chip readers in off-the-shelf computers are of more recent origin than USB ports so may be around a bit longer. Plus there are plenty of chip readers that can plug into various ports on computers and adapters can be cascaded when (not "if") USB ports are no longer standard.
I base this on seeing vast libraries of 2" video tape for which there are precious few VTRs left functional to play them back and copy them to newer formats.
I would not expect SD formats to outlast USB. Virtually everything is USB these days - it will stick around for decades. Every single computer has USB access, every phone charges through USB and essentially every device that has a SD card in it also has a USB connection. This is not true in the reverse. There are also several versions of chips.
USB is not going anywhere. SD cards will likely last a long time as well but they will disappear if a newer, better version cones out.
All of my important data is in paper form in a fireproof safe.I think important data should be backed up in several ways. Disk, Flash, HDD, Cloud.Technically the most portable storage device is cloud storage, you can pretty much access your files anywhere from any device that has internet capabilities. As for the positives and negatives, that usually depends on each person.USB is more universal, that is the largest difference for me. You can go anywhere and USB will be available where SD card readers are far less likely. If you are only dealing with your own devices then such is irrelevant. USB is also far cheaper in my experience but that may have changed considering all the portable devices that use SD cards now.
I would expect the data stored on the chips to have longevity equal to or slightly better than that stored on USB thumb drives.My concern, however, is availability of the means to access the data a few years down the road. Chip readers in off-the-shelf computers are of more recent origin than USB ports so may be around a bit longer. Plus there are plenty of chip readers that can plug into various ports on computers and adapters can be cascaded when (not "if") USB ports are no longer standard.
I base this on seeing vast libraries of 2" video tape for which there are precious few VTRs left functional to play them back and copy them to newer formats.
I would not expect SD formats to outlast USB. Virtually everything is USB these days - it will stick around for decades. Every single computer has USB access, every phone charges through USB and essentially every device that has a SD card in it also has a USB connection. This is not true in the reverse. There are also several versions of chips.
USB is not going anywhere. SD cards will likely last a long time as well but they will disappear if a newer, better version cones out.
Universal does not mean that you can use adapters to eventually get it there.With adapters you can turn a Micro SD Card into a larger SD Card and even into a USB drive. This is why SD cards are more universal.USB is more universal, that is the largest difference for me.
Where the fuck do you go where you have no internet connection and you need all of your stored files?Clouds are useless, if you have no Internet at your destination. I signed up at Pogoplug a while ago and now they are going off. So if you you miss the window to save your files for some reason, hospital or whatever, they are simply gone. It is now the second storage service I have used that goes off.Put it in the cloud
That really is pretty average:I bought a 32gb USB drive from Walmart on sale this past week for less than $8. Pretty good deal if you ask me. I should have gotten 2.
That really is pretty average:I bought a 32gb USB drive from Walmart on sale this past week for less than $8. Pretty good deal if you ask me. I should have gotten 2.
32GB, USB Flash Drives, USB Flash Drives & Memory Cards, Components - Newegg.com
8 bucks. 64gig versions are 12. USB drives are dirt cheap now.
What matters is the actual speed of your USB stick. Many sticks won´t surpass the 60MB/sec that USB 2.0 supports. The cheap ones not in any case.That really is pretty average:I bought a 32gb USB drive from Walmart on sale this past week for less than $8. Pretty good deal if you ask me. I should have gotten 2.
32GB, USB Flash Drives, USB Flash Drives & Memory Cards, Components - Newegg.com
8 bucks. 64gig versions are 12. USB drives are dirt cheap now.
Well even after searching other sites, since I picked it up at the WalMart instead of paying shipping it was still cheap, though not as good a deal as I thought. It's FileMate so it's a good brand, just a 2.0 and not a 3.0, which sucks.
Meh, 3.0 is overstated. The transfer rates are not bottle necked at the connection but rather the devices themselves. 2.0 is still more than sufficient for anything in the PC market. Far more than sufficient.That really is pretty average:I bought a 32gb USB drive from Walmart on sale this past week for less than $8. Pretty good deal if you ask me. I should have gotten 2.
32GB, USB Flash Drives, USB Flash Drives & Memory Cards, Components - Newegg.com
8 bucks. 64gig versions are 12. USB drives are dirt cheap now.
Well even after searching other sites, since I picked it up at the WalMart instead of paying shipping it was still cheap, though not as good a deal as I thought. It's FileMate so it's a good brand, just a 2.0 and not a 3.0, which sucks.
I had to put ferrite clips on all my cables to clean up my vocal recordings. (Though to be completely fair I have a lot of other interference from high power components; 1600W PSU, (2) R9-290X GPUs, home theater receiver, custom LEDs, water pumps, etc. Lots of crackles before I beaded everything heh)
