On 2/27/24 03:30, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2024-02-27 05:49, Lew Wolfgang wrote:

Also, I have no issue myself with USB thumb drives.  Indeed, I've
got a 256GB one permanently plugged into the back of my
desktop. I use it for daily backups of important things, like
my ssh private keys to get into remote servers.

Thumb drives (sticks) fail eventually. That technology has a limited number of writes. How long they will last is an unknown. There is no SMART, there is no wear levelling.

I understand, but I've been using mine for more than 10-years,
running rsync's to it from a daily cron job.  It's storing 186GB
right now in an XFS filesystem.

But you have a point, maybe I should get a new one and retire
the old one just in case.  I think the old one is even USB2.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)