Pen drive durability?

[vibrato]

Hi,
I was thinking in store my important data as a back up in a pen drive. My doubts are that I "feel" like pen drives arent durable, be erased, errors or the plug broken. I come to ask you to tell me if Im right or wrong and what kind of pen drive would store safely the data for a lot of time. About the plug itself, I was thinking in something like this, where the plug is the pendrive itself, all metal too, this way it cant be bended like most of pen drives.

http://i4.zst.com.br/images/pen-drive-kingston-data-traveler-32-gb-usb-3-0-dtse9g2-photo47076103-12-0-f.jpg

I have an additional question. I have read that SSDs are like big pendrives... But I have read that if a SSD is not connected in a week, maybe a month it will lose its stored files. Is this true?

Thanks

 

[unksol]

SSDs should be powered every year. I'd never ever use a flash drive as the only backup for important files. They should also be on a real hardrive or preferably optical media stored properly off site

 

[whassup]

For backing up important data what I depends is the good old DVDs. If you can keep the discs in a safe location protected from scratches, dust etc DVDs last very long provided you use high quality discs. Whereas pen-drives, SSD, HDDs are all electronic and mechanical devices that can fail over time. The other option is to use a cloud service for backing up your important data that may cost you some annual money if you want to store large amounts of data.