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Originally Posted by wormraper
for every story you hear about some flash drive that lasted 10 billion years, we have a dozen stories of them failing prematurely. they are not STABLE media, and I've had burned stuff that has failed less than a year after burning. you don't want a mass media type of storage format that isn't STABLE.
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You must be thinking about the old type drives with multiple/moving parts. Those are much more prone to breaking down. The single part one like I posted aren't. The older USB flash drives with LED lights and what not - I've had them break down on me. And even if they don't break down, their performance was shaky and sometimes they would just freeze when I transfered larg amounts of data to them. The simple single part ones, I've never had a problem with them, either with them breaking down or transferring large amounts of data from and to them. And my PC always recognizes/loads them within a couple of seconds after I insert them into the USB port. And they already make 64 gig versions of them - much smaller than a blu ray and with 14 gigabytes of extra space:
I'm not trying to argue against blu ray personally. I love having blu rays on my shelf way more than a bunch of USB drives laying around. But in terms of pure storage and I mean data storage only, they can be substituted and those products are getting better and cheaper every year.