USB Flash Drives are a fast way to transfer large amounts of data, but they are:
– NOT ARCHIVAL – life expectancy of a few months to a few years due to limited read/write cycles
– NOT WRITE PROTECTED – can be deleted or formatted, and can spread viruses
– SMALL – easy to lose, drop, step on, etc.
You should immediately copy the data to:
+ Your computer’s internal hard drive
+ An external USB hard drive
+ Optical Disc (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray)
+ The Cloud (Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, etc.)
+ Another flash drive
+ The more places the better!