flash usb maindrive

[Ibrihim]

I am planing a small computer in a case I want to build. What problems am I looking at if I plug a usb 3 pendrive directly to the motherboard and use as the boot and main drive. Currently a 128 gb Voyager GS is favorite on price/performance.

 

[Elixer]

USB sticks tend to use the lowest quality NAND, it isn't meant for lots of writes.
Better off getting a 128GB SSD.

 

[Ibrihim]

Thanks Elixer . I am running ssd just fancy something else. I read a review using a number of different USB sticks for main drive and on the speed side they were good (at least much faster than a disk based hard drive) . The pendrives they chose were the high price versions with I think faster chips and controller. What you said is I imagine true but I liked the thought of one machine being different to each pen owner. As opposed to dual boot for O/S and partitions and passwords. Its not for my main computer.

 

[Ibrihim]

I read this-http://www.amazon.com/review/R1DAEKHG08JH9F
It seems to approach "SSD on a stick" If it has better quality nand will it take the hammering a main drive can ? I read newegg gave ssd returns 1.5% and Hard drives 5% although that's from new. I understand higher failure rates come at 3 +years use for both types.