Flashdrives are not forever storage. Flashdrives corrupt literally all the time. And old flashdrives that sit around also corrupt while not in use. If you care about your data, store that data in multiple places. Follow the data hygiene rules. 3 2 1: 3 copies of the data, on 2 different storage mediums, with 1 copy off-site.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

forever is a long time. distributed copies might last beyond my time. eh

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Got it so buy a second drive, and pay $15/mo to the cloud storage company.

[–] lapping6596@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

If you're willing to deal with managing it, 125gb on s3 seems to cost about $3 per month.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You think you can do better for 15 dollars go ahead.

[–] Redredme@lemmy.world -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

15? I pay like 80 euro for 1 year m365 family. That's 5 Terrabyte for 80/12=6,66 euro/month.

That's less then a cent per GB. Much less. Combine that with Amazon photos (Unlimited photo storage, included with prime) and i'm set.

There is no cheaper storage plan.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

you completely missed the point