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LadyKate · 12-02-2016, 04:14 PM

I was impatient and after some additional research I opted with trying NTFS (sorry guys, not ignoring your suggestions just did it before I saw them).

I don't know the brand... it is a no name thumb drive that was picked up supercheap online at wish.com. It is 2TB (well... as counted if a kb was 1000 bytes and not 1024).

At $25 and with their return policy on defective items (my housemate has had to occasionally return items that didn't work and had no problem at all) it seemed like a good deal for "almost static backup".

I admit the speed leaves much to be desired. it is very slow (a usb 2 not usb 3 thumb drive) and I would not buy this particular one again, only because of the speed, but as I have been thinking it is time for me to put my various libraries (and some other items) on a drive to store with a friend in case of fire it seemed to be the right price if it worked (and as I said, my housemate has found wish.com to be easy to deal with when products arrived that were defective in the past).

I'm still doing the copy (after changing my power settings on Windows 10 so it didn't shut down even with a copy going on, it has currently been copying my library since 2am and as of 4pm it is at 23% complete lol)

Ask me in a few days if I still think this inexpensive thumb drive is a good "static backup" tool.

12-02-2016, 04:14 PM	#9
LadyKate Fanatic Posts: 515 Karma: 1470724 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Quebec CA Device: android 4 (samsung tablet and asus tablet)	I was impatient and after some additional research I opted with trying NTFS (sorry guys, not ignoring your suggestions just did it before I saw them). I don't know the brand... it is a no name thumb drive that was picked up supercheap online at wish.com. It is 2TB (well... as counted if a kb was 1000 bytes and not 1024). At $25 and with their return policy on defective items (my housemate has had to occasionally return items that didn't work and had no problem at all) it seemed like a good deal for "almost static backup". I admit the speed leaves much to be desired. it is very slow (a usb 2 not usb 3 thumb drive) and I would not buy this particular one again, only because of the speed, but as I have been thinking it is time for me to put my various libraries (and some other items) on a drive to store with a friend in case of fire it seemed to be the right price if it worked (and as I said, my housemate has found wish.com to be easy to deal with when products arrived that were defective in the past). I'm still doing the copy (after changing my power settings on Windows 10 so it didn't shut down even with a copy going on, it has currently been copying my library since 2am and as of 4pm it is at 23% complete lol) Ask me in a few days if I still think this inexpensive thumb drive is a good "static backup" tool.