Very useful advice.
About that overwriting method: I'm a bit worried about flash drives. They usually never safe files twice at the same physical location to preserve their limited write cycles. So if I fill a file with scrambled data and safe it again, will it really physically overwrite the old data and not just mark the old data as deleted and write on a new spot?
Does anyone know how to answer that?
And the other way around if I use something as aggressive as the Gutmann method and the hardware really does not change the physical saving location, this should reduce the lifetime of the storage device endangering the saved backups. Actual usage lifetime nubers for flash drives are barely known at all. This makes this a bit scary.
Any ideas?
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I don't care about the method of storing data in the thumb drive as it is only used for important crypto passwords and then hidden away. I have a 10 years old drive still working. There are no moving parts so they should work a very long time. I have two drives in the event one fails and will make sure they continue to work.
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