Seems my beaten little Transcend USB Drive has come out of its 5 year warranty, finally. Still works perfectly as the day it was new, in Feb 03. 256MB, USB1, cost me $120 at the time and i thought i was getting a great bargain. I bought it specifically as it was small enough to get into nearly every recessed front usb port of the cases of the day.

How much, how old and what size is your oldest working USB Drive?

My 128mb corsair from 03 as well. Dubbed miks70s by my mates as it looks like it came from the.... 70s. Believe I paid about $80 for it. Probably still holds a select few vintage bios versions. All about the vintage.

i cant remember when i got my frist one but it was a long time ago, and everyone ive ever bought are still working.

I got 2x 1gig drives a few years back and thought they stuffed up after a couple of months. Tried them recently and they worked fine. The issue with them is they would pop in "my computer" but would not be accessible. But then i got an 8gb SDHC card in a digicam which was 2 weeks old and was inaccessible just yesterday. XP software is too blame I think had to disable, uninstall and then reboot, reinstall to get the bloody thing working.

Hmm, I think my oldest ones are only from early 2006 - a freebie one of the DLink sales guys gave me when I was doing some sponsorship stuff with them, and a SanDisk UltraII+USB.

I've got CF cards which are dying though - SanDisk UltraIIs - you get failed and re-attempted writes towards the end of the cards.

But they've taken somewhere around 30,000 shots, so I can't complain too much. I think the camera has done close to 80-100,000 actuations in almost 4 years.

A 128MB (don't remember the brand) is around here somewhere. I bought it in 2004 from Harris Technology for year 12. Since then, I've put it through the wash, had its leash holder snap and had the plastic casing come apart from the components inside (fixed it with sticky tape) and it is still working.

As Mr Hardware said, I thought I was getting a good deal and while I see how cheap they are, they probably don't make them as durable as my one.

Bought mine in 2003 for like $120 or something, for 256 mb

We still have quite a number of 64MB IBM flash drives floating around here at work. They're clear, so I can see that they have Samsung memory in them and M-Systems controllers.

Dont think i ever bought one... i swear USB's are the most commonly lost item there is. I work at a uni :P

I have a 16mb one from many years ago. Don't recall price but works fine still.

16Mb. Bundled with a USB mouse.

I've only ever had one, and it was a champ. JakeG is right though, I never got to see how long it was going to last for, because I lost it at uni. =(

every stick I've had gets killed inside 18 mnths. rooted mobos/thieves/idiot noobies around me see them into an early grave.

I do have a 3.5' usb hdd caddy that's been kicking along nicely for 4 years now (along with the 40gig inside it), but I don't really use it everyday.