in the span of a single month is next to zero
It’s much higher than zero, if let’s say your ssd goes kaput & you try moving everything at once to a new one. That action by itself comes with risk, especially if the usb stick is very large & manufactured after covid. There is also the bit rot issue, usb sticks are useless as backup solutions for any use case, it’s just a false sense of security.
MoonRaven@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Do keep in mind that if you’ve got a flood, fire, or something else happening to your pc, it will be lost. That’s why I’d recommend an off-site backup, or at least to somewhere else in the house than where the pc is.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
The stick in question is off-site; it sees the PC once per month, then it gets back to the drawer. And regardless of its fate, if I had a flood or fire affecting my PC, in the second store of a brick house, odds are that I’d have far more pressing matters than the data.