FLASH DRIVES AND SSD'S

Have we ever lost a flash drive? Or do you find you have a whole bag of flash drives at home, but not with you when you need one. Family history centers and libraries have boxes full of lost flash drives.

You might ask why the owner couldn't be found. The answer is simple, no identification. No label on the outside nor file on the inside that would identify the owner. A label on the outside or file on the inside identifying the owner would save a lot of heartaches.

The price of flash drives and solid-state drives (SSD drives) has been dropping. For $135 you can buy a 1 TB solid-state drive. Or, if you need more backup, for slightly less than $300 you can buy a 2 TB solid-state drive.

So why by an SSD? The answer is speed and reliability. Here is the scoop...

Genealogy's Star

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How reliable are SSDs? (Flash Drives or Thumb Drives) Posted: 16 Mar 2019 06:32 AM PDT

...overall SSDs (including flash drives) have a failure rate of .5 % as opposed to a failure rate of 2 to 5% for spinning hard drives. See Enterprise Storage: SSD vs HD. This is why the cost factor is so important. Hard drives are still less expensive than solid-state drives for large capacities, but with the drop in prices of solid state devices, the advantage begins to disappear.