I’m thinking about getting one for several purposes, primarily for portable software, some certificates and keys, and a few backups. Since it won’t be powered off for more than a few days or weeks and won’t experience heavy writing (although I plan to use Veracrypt and that may cause some stress)
How long can I expect it to last? Obviously there will be backups, but I also don’t want to lose anything on it as much as possible.
I can’t say what is the usual failure rate as my drives fail in like 3 months or years but dont buy kingston datatravel 3.0 both died in a month and one of the replacements died in one month, and the second one is still going. They were used to transfer some files beetween computers and as ventoy drives for when windows breaks or I break my current distro.