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 read it as occasional use on any os. If you have a Raspberry Pi running 24/7 and it’s constantly whacking that memory stick with read / writes it’s going to die faster than the USB stick you use to install Linux twice a year