Using USB flash sticks for recording audio?

[luca1]

Actually I would like to know an answer for this one as well. Am on the road travellin and could use a third drive for samples and such in ableton live...

Is this an option?

:Luca

[PaPi61]

Flash drives are extremely unreliable --especially after they've been subjected to repeated write/erase/write cycles-- and they may become unusable at any moment. I would never use them to record anything, only as temporary storage to transfer data to someone else's computer.

A better alternative: Compact Flash cards for professional photography (yes, of course they're more expensive than standard CF cards.)

[KickDrum]

Originally Posted by PaPi61

Flash drives are extremely unreliable --especially after they've been subjected to repeated write/erase/write cycles-- and they may become unusable at any moment. I would never use them to record anything, only as temporary storage to transfer data to someone else's computer.

A better alternative: Compact Flash cards for professional photography (yes, of course they're more expensive than standard CF cards.)

I've been wondering about this for a while and I can't find anything on searches. Is this still the case? So would something like this be a more flexible and equally capable substitute for a 128gb solid state hard drive inside a laptop?:
SanDisk reveals $1500 128GB Extreme Pro CF card, Ultra / Cruzer Edge USB drives -- Engadget
Do the solid state internal hard drives of laptops suffer from the degraded performance of writing and re-writing as mentioned above? I would really appreciate any computer guys weighing in on this or people who have had experience.