Flash drives bug me anyway:
What's necessary (and doesn't end up bent from sticking way out of the port on a laptop or car stereo)
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What they keep doing:
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If I need it bigger for some reason, I'm perfectly capable of JB Welding some random crap onto the little one. Then I can have a flash drive as impractical as this:
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I have one of those little Sandisk ones, in 64GB (aux storage for my Nexus 7 tablet, used with an OTA cable - unfortunately, it won't just plug in). I like it. Attached a little lanyard to it, to make it easier to remove on the rare occasions I plug it into the PC. I ought to get a few more.
I also have a 128GB full-sized flash drive - also Sandisk, looking at it - which I use as a backup for my work files. Windows XP and 7 computers see that drive as an installed drive, not removable storage.
Neither was terribly expensive, though I *DID* get the big drive on a pretty good sale 3-4 months ago. But it's now at that sale price as the regular price, IIRC. The little 64GB drive pricing is about... 2/3 of where I bought it, 4-5 months ago? Got the tablet in late December, drive probably >1 month later, so it would have been January for that.
Both came in packages far larger than necessary.