Not to try to hijack a thread, but I am a big fan of these Kingston Data Travellers for hard use and abuse.
I bought this one, and a couple of others, several years ago. I used it for a year or 2, then my daughter needed a flash drive for school, so I gave it to her.
She tended to leave it in her pocket, and so it got washed and dried in the laundry at least twice. That was a couple of years ago, and it is still going strong.
That impresses even a Model F fan!