I've never lost data on a flash drive, but then I don't carry them around in my pocket either.

I've had one with a physical failure, the USB plug became unattached internally to the housing, so pushing it into the computer pushed it into the drive. I did get the data off it.

I do one-nighter gigs for a living and keep all my backing tracks and charts on a flash drive - just in case. Every time I learn a new song, the data gets added. It lives a hard life, traveling back and forth to the gig in a laptop case, but on the other hand, it doesn't get used much.

I don't know why an external flash drive should be slower than an external hard drive. It seems to this non-tech person that the USB speed should be the same, and the fact that the external hard drive is spinning and the flash drive not, should make the flash drive more reliable and possibly quicker. But like I said, I'm not a techie so I'm sure someone who is will explain it to me.

On the other hand, if BiaB would work as well on a flash drive, I would suspect PG Music would distribute BiaB on a flash.

Just thinking out loud here.

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