Ask HN: In your opinion, which USB flash drive manufacturer is best?
You can't really compare speeds or prices.
I bought a cheap ADATA stick once from a local shop and about a year later I was unable to read from the drive on numerous machines.
I bought the Patriot Supersonic Magnum (because of this post I saw on HN: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/11/a-ssd-in-your-pocket.html ) and within a few months it suffered a complete data loss. I had to contact the company and they sent me some .exe file that restored the drive back to working order... but I have yet to place a single file on it since considering that a complete data loss was even possibile on that drive.
In my experience, corsair has been very good to me. I own a number of those USBs and I have yet to see one stop working.
I had one of these babies which I used extensively for a number of years: http://ocz.com/consumer/flash-drives/atv-flash-drive
Once it died, I was still able to remove the data from it which was nice.
I welcome your thoughts on the subject.