A single USB stick can save your PC - here's how

While USB flash drives have largely fallen out of vogue, they can be handy as a backup when cloud backups or other solutions fail to save Windows.
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I use flash drives as a backup, even though everybody tells me not to

Bit rot and cheap NAND—why I actually trust USB thumb drives for my 3-2-1 backups ...