I’m thinking about getting one for several purposes, primarily for portable software, some certificates and keys, and a few backups. Since it won’t be powered off for more than a few days or weeks and won’t experience heavy writing (although I plan to use Veracrypt and that may cause some stress)
How long can I expect it to last? Obviously there will be backups, but I also don’t want to lose anything on it as much as possible.
I’ve quite literally never had one fail even under heavy abuse.
I’ve had several USB sticks that have degraded or failed due to heavy wear, but I’m the type of person that sets up a 8x256gb RAID1 setup for fun. Maybe that’s a bit outside of “normal use”.
RAID1 with 8 drives is definitely in the funsies department