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- Dec 27, 2008
You get what you pay for. Just make sure you know what you need the drive to do and spend accordingly. And yes, flash drives do fail so the advice about having more than one backup scheme in place is excellent advice. Cloud backup is the safest single solution if you are only going with one. The downsides of cloud backup are: 1. the potential for hacking and 2. the slow recovery speed. Concerning the latter, I have helped people recover data from Carbonite backup over the net after catastrophic hard drive failure and it can take some time to get everything back, depending on the speed of your connection and the particular plan you purchased. The company prioritizes it's uploads so stuff can trickle in over days. Kind of works like google photos in that sense.