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In 2017 at school, a classmate of mine has lost a USB flash drive with hours of homework in a PC room, and he could not find it again.

Data storage carried around is more exposed to the environment and more prone to getting lost.

Data storage used in a car (e.g. USB/CD/SD for music) is heavily exposed to temperature changes in the car's cabin.

If you carry data around, only carry copies, and/or set up a file server (e.g. FTP or WebDAV) at home.

And for paper note books (of which I have lost three during my school years, as far as I can remember), a quick backup method is pointing a video camera at it, preferrably one with 2160p (4K).

In 2017 at school, a classmate of mine has lost a USB flash drive with hours of homework in a PC room, and he could not find it again. Data storage carried around is more exposed to the environment and more prone to getting lost. Data storage used in a car (e.g. USB/CD/SD for music) is heavily exposed to temperature changes in the car's cabin. If you carry data around, only carry copies, and/or set up a file server (e.g. FTP or WebDAV) at home. And for paper note books (of which I have lost three during my school years, as far as I can remember), a quick backup method is [pointing a video camera at it](https://poal.co/s/DataLossPrevention/181659), preferrably one with 2160p (4K).

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yep, USB drives will crap out right when you need it.

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With which brand(s) do you have this experience?

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Bunch a different ones. The only thing I use those for is to move files from one pc to another. They are essentially flash drives. They have only a certain numbers of writes.