Computer memory Sticks  

Memory stick is OK if you are moving information form computer to computer. I have all back up on external drive. It is smart money spending. I have 250 GB external drive for about $99, it means that I can keep as much as I want on external drive. In addition to I have all copy on second external drive, so I have information protected. I need it for my photography, but memory stick is more expensive and memory wise limited...

We asked the tech guys at my last job about different storage media, and which were the best, and the conclusion that they reached was that basically every form of storage media will eventually wear out, it's just a matter of how long it takes before it wears out. I believe that memory sticks were among the items that will wear out somewhere between 1-3 years, while a CD has a good chance of lasting longer, as long as it isn't scratched.

If you want your data to be the most secure, the best recommendation is usually to back it up to more than one storage device. So if you are burning to a CD now, having a memory stick also would make your data more secure.


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I think it would but I am not sure! I don't see why not, as long as you have the same program available to open it up with later.

Rachel

No form of backup lasts forever. Your best bet is to have multiple backups. Optical discs, like CDs and DVDs, can last as long as five years if you take care of them. Flashdrives are the most convenient, but they also tend to die faster than the others. Hard drives tend to have the longest shelf life when you only use them for backups as opposed to a primary system drive, but you don't always know ahead of time when they're about to fail. There are Data Recovery centers available to come to your rescue, but their services are not cheap.

Another option is online storage. There are plenty of places where you can get free storage. Two that I use are Xdrive and MediaFire. MediaFire can store files up to 100 MB apiece, and even host files (at your discretion) so that anyone can download them at any time. Storage space is unlimited; the only limitation on free accounts is 100 MB maximum per file. AOL offers free Xdrive accounts with 5 GB of storage. However, the size of an individual file is not limited to 100 MB. I don't know for sure, but I'm assuming you could actually upload and store a single file at 5 GB if you wanted to (a disk image, for example). I keep ISO images there for two of my most important techie CDs, WinPE and the Hiren. The WinPE image is a full 618 MB. :)

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If you backup the pages onto a memory stick in the same way as burning the items onto a cd or similar it would be better as you can erase the items easier off a memory stick than off a cd.

It would be a good idea to back it onto a cd and keep that in a media safe once a month, depending on how often you update your pages.

Try to make it so that you can add items to the cd, this way you don't have a cd sitting there half full.

I know that you can get a 2GB Lexar Flash Drive from Officeworks for about $50-60

Let us know how you go!

Hi Lilaclady, You can use memory sticks to backup your web page. However I would recommend an external hard drive for your backups. Your get more storage capacity and can therefore organize your backup more efficiently.

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Yeah, I have an 80 GB external drive, which had cost me 25€.
I have all my important programs in C:, in D: i save some works of mine and in my external disk i save all the other things that do not have nothing to view with my work

A memory stick might work, but they are meant for portable things, images, programs for work, etc.

But if you want that, I would think that having an external drive or even mulitple backups one on a drive, one on a CD, in case one gets ruined.

I have my images on 3 computers, and back them up on a DVD drive.

Downside of memory sticks are they tend to be very easy to drop and or loose easily....In my house memory sticks are not a good option

mooch

Its a good option, but as ppl said a external drive is usually better. Still I always make a full backup on DVDs every now and then, because the external drives are too expensive here.

well memory sticks are smaller