11-30-2016, 01:37 AM
(11-30-2016, 01:32 AM)Cozy Wrote: Well I think there's a variable we're missing here, what about the fact that you keep them on a key chain, it's probably exposed to different temperatures throughout the day (Florida weather to ac in a grocery store or what have you), and then it may be clashes with keys, I've always just kept them in my pocket or book bag, and they've never failed me.
I have a sandisk that doesn't perform well when I'm playing music from it, but other than that it keeps files together and easy to access.
Come to think of it though, every time I've had a USB 16 gb or over they've always broken in some way, maybe a coincidence.
I think if you need something over 32gb might as well get a hard drive, all that information in one tiny place would make me nervous. Unless the scripts are so big they need gigs of space.
The USB keys are not just backing up the scripts. They're backing up all the files I need to rebuild my build environment if my computer dies, hard disk, house burns down, etc. They fit in 64 gigs. I like to have 2 USB keys with these files on me at all times. In case one fails. The one I have right now is shockproof and water resistant to 20 feet, IIRC.
The theory that their treatment is why they fail, itself fails, because I have lost just as many keys to the "harsh treatment" of being kept in my desk drawer.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!