on 20/11/2016, The Natural Philosopher supposed :
What could honestly go wrong?

You drop it in a cup of coffee? The dog chews it?

I suppose I should have listened to you on the 100+ times I have done
this...oh hang on. That was even before the days of USB....

I agree. This is what I have always done, since the days of (massive
full height) 10Mb HDD's. Never a single failure.