What Size Flash Drive Do I Need to Backup My Computer?
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Generally speaking, the exact size of a flash drive depends on the content size and the way you decide to back for your computer.
To answer “What size flash drive do I need to backup my computer”, here are some suggestions. There are a variety of sizes of flash drives, such as 8 GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 128GB, and you can choose the size of a flash drive according to your actual needs. Typically, a 16 GB USB is quite enough if you just want to backup the Windows system. However, if you want to backup some personal files, then 32 GB or 64 GB USB size is more suitable. What’s more, if you want to backup the entire system, all the programs, and the whole personal data, you need to choose a bigger one, for example, 128 GB or 256 GB and even bigger.
Also, the exact size of the USB drive depends on how much data you want to backup on your computer. And if you get 16 GB of data on your computer, you’d better choose a USB more than 16 GB.
With a flash drive, you gain more freedom to multitask among multiple devices and add one more protection layer to your hard drive. But how to backup a flash drive to avoid some unexpected issues like theft, fire and flood disasters? Using professional backup software is the most reliable and time-saving way. The best free backup and restore software for USB drives is AOMEI Backupper. It enables you to backup in a scheduled mode by daily/ weekly/ monthly/ event trigger and USB plug-in.
If you don’t know how to backup USB with such software, you can follow the below tutorial.
✍Note:
◆Please download AOMEI Backupper and install it on your computer.
◆Then insert your flash drive into the computer and make sure it can be detected properly.
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1Select Backup on the left panel and then choose File Backup.
2Click Add File or Add Folder according to your need. Then you can back up the USB successfully
3Then you need to select the destination path. You can backup files to external hard drive, NAS network location, or other locations as long as it can be detected by Windows.
4You can set a schedule backup to automate the file backup task by choosing the Schedule icon.
5When everything is ready, choose Start Backup to backup files.
