I've never looked into buying one of these things and to tell you the truth I would have looked sooner but didn't realize they made them this size. Anyway, I want one to put a lot of music on in my car. I already have a USB hard drive but I believe the Flash drive would work out way better. I only need about 160gb but I'd like to have extra room for more music and I'm re-ripping my music to a higher bit rate and the extra room will be needed.
So, I don't really need one that has fast write speeds I just need one so that my car can access the music reliably and fast. The USB hard drive I have in it now is decent but this is where I believe the flash drive will be better. I've taken my iPhone and connected it to access it with the car and it's much faster than the USB hard drive I have now. I believe it's because the iPhone uses a SSD and I've checked on these and they are relatively more expensive than flash drives.
Like I said I only need it to write to here and there and the bulk of the music will be added initially and don't care for the fastest write speeds only fast read speeds, as I don't know if these are all the same in that area or not but it does need to read fast. I'd like it to be a reliable, quality product that will last so any help is greatly appreciated. The reason I ask is that as soon as I found out that there were flash drives I immediately started looking at them and became interested but soon found out that there were some priced at $70 on ebay and some priced at $900 from a Kingston brand. So this big price difference got me very confused. Here's one that I found on ebay and I don't know what to think.
http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-Flash-Drive-256GB-Real-Leather_W0QQitemZ260556484464QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item3caa606f70#ht_972wt_1200
So, I don't really need one that has fast write speeds I just need one so that my car can access the music reliably and fast. The USB hard drive I have in it now is decent but this is where I believe the flash drive will be better. I've taken my iPhone and connected it to access it with the car and it's much faster than the USB hard drive I have now. I believe it's because the iPhone uses a SSD and I've checked on these and they are relatively more expensive than flash drives.
Like I said I only need it to write to here and there and the bulk of the music will be added initially and don't care for the fastest write speeds only fast read speeds, as I don't know if these are all the same in that area or not but it does need to read fast. I'd like it to be a reliable, quality product that will last so any help is greatly appreciated. The reason I ask is that as soon as I found out that there were flash drives I immediately started looking at them and became interested but soon found out that there were some priced at $70 on ebay and some priced at $900 from a Kingston brand. So this big price difference got me very confused. Here's one that I found on ebay and I don't know what to think.
http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-Flash-Drive-256GB-Real-Leather_W0QQitemZ260556484464QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item3caa606f70#ht_972wt_1200
then I did a Google search and there really are 256 GB flash drives now! 
