In a relatively short amount of time, the average capacity of USB flash drives has skyrocketed. It wasn’t so long ago that two and four gigabyte drives were considered to be on the high end, but today ...

I figure (in a very lose guess) if you get something like a 4 or 8 gig flash drive and try to avoid filling it past 60-70% of it's storage capacity that you can pretty much expect it to last forever, ...