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February 5th, 2009 02:27 PM #31
Not really. Just enough power stabilization to maintain a stable computer is enough to write properly. SD Cards do take their power from the motherboard.
The good thing about optical storage however is that whatever happens, all the drive has to do is read the burn patterns from a rotating disc. Even in the event of unfortunate surges, the computer and its drives can get damaged but your data remains intact.
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February 5th, 2009 05:36 PM #32
Theoretically true. They have ridiculously high MTBF that they should last three lifetimes. But in reality, its reliability is only as strong as it's weakest cell (or a block of it). And in a flash memory chip that's roughly 8,000,000,000 bytes big, the chances of that looming failure happening becomes equally significant.
That's why it's still best to have 2 or more copies of your backup... just in case.
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April 19th, 2009 01:31 AM #33
Just updating... I have gone with USB flash drives as server data back up.
Three 4gig usb flash drives for Mon-Thurs / Tues-Friday / Wed-Sat.
Hopefully the USB ports in front of the server will be durable. If not, I will install a USB hub connected from behind.
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