Re: [Trisquel-users] What brand / size of flash drive would you recommend ?

[onpon4]

It depends on how you're using it. Hard drives generally wear down by  
spinning up and spinning down (e.g. when you shut down the computer) and to a  
lesser extent by other more random factors which gradually cause an  
increasing number of bad sectors, but are generally unaffected by repeated  
writes. Flash storage is only worn down by writing to it, but there's a fixed  
number of writes that can be performed on each part of the storage, and it  
becomes useless once that limit is reached.

So, basically, if you're leaving your computer on most of the time (like a  
server does), or if you're making tons of writes all the time, a hard drive  
is hands-down better than flash storage. But if you're only making occasional  
writes, constantly turning your computer on and off, and generally subjecting  
your computer to more physical stress (like sudden movements), flash storage  
can last much longer than a hard drive.