4 ms·
You could just put it on a local disk? 512GB sdcard is like $15 at Walmart.
by 1970-01-01 5mo ago
You could just put it on a local disk? 512GB sdcard is like $15 at Walmart.
- dghlsakjg 5mo agoCheck the price of flash memory again. That $15 card is almost certainly a scam.
- dawnerd 5mo agoYeah their memory of how much memory costs is outdated. I was just at a walmart this weekend and a 128 card was 30 bucks.
- matsemann 5mo agoAt least if bought from Amazon. It will happily accept writing 512 GB to it, but it's not stored anywhere.
- irishcoffee 5mo agoYep that burned me once. Lesson learned.
- browningstreet 5mo agoI wanted a forever backup. I'm going to trust Apple and a hard drive.
- lostlogin 5mo agoAh yes, the famously reliable Time Machine.
- tibbydudeza 5mo agoTM was a hack - iCloud is pretty good I reckon - for the millions of devices they have in the market there has been the only odd complaint from somebody on twitter making headlines with a Technorati type of following about user accounts mysterious being deleted or blocked (poor customer support) or some weird syncing issues when moving to a new device and the old device is still in use.
- ThePowerOfFuet 5mo agoTell me you have no interest in your own data without telling me you have no interest in your own data.
- 1970-01-01 5mo agoHow is a local copy not the best way to store data?
- Twirrim 5mo agoA local copy is inherently fragile. It's easily destroyed by accident, flood, fire etc. This is especially true when using a single storage device like an SD Card, vs the way that these storage services operate, leveraging things like erasure encoding. Local backups are important, they're cheap, and often fast. They just shouldn't be the only kind of backup you do for data that is important to you.