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Originally Posted by Maker
Flash drives fail when used in that manner. You are risking total loss of all you files. That is a very risky procedure to do, and promote.
All important files need to be in at least 2 places, one of which is in the cloud. Out of the house where a fire, hurricane, theft, will not reach.
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The cloud is only useful if you're online when you need a file. It's useless if you're in a situation when you don't have internet access.
My photos are in several places - on my hard drive, on google drive, on my flash drive, on my phone.
My data files are on a flash drive, though I do have some duplication to my hard drive on my desktop computer with some of the files. The only exception are the files I created using google sheets and google docs. Those are initially on the cloud server, and THEN I convert them to libre office formatting and save them to my flash drive. I don't use google sheets or docs for much though.
Most of my programs are on a flash drive, and I have my entire computer ghosted to an SD card.
This is the same flash drive I've had for seven years. It's fine. The USB port I usually stick it in is getting wobbly because my cat keeps rubbing against the drive. The data on the drive is still perfectly secure and allows me to work (and read books) offline.