Everyone's always bickering about wear leveling and write cycles on flash drives, but I have yet to run into a flash drive with a worn out cell, and I use my flash drive to death.
You may find those 16's unattractive soon and be looking to upgrade.
Thanks for the great info. Re: the above, I don't anticipate either will be an issue as I just want them to have more efficient maintenance than running from their DW disks, et cetera. Therefore there won't be much on the flash drives and they shouldn't be used too often.
They're already quite tuned into the idea of back-ups from my nagging, and they use both Time Machine and Super Duper cloning. I drove the point home with the old joke: "What's the difference between getting hit by a truck or having your hard drive crash without backup?"
Answer: "With the hard drive crash, you know you're dead."
ryck
