USB memory stick: what brand, model is best?

[James Knott]

verbum-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I hope to go shopping 2006-02-20 in 
> the vicinity of the U of Toronto downtown campus 
> for a USB memory stick, as an accessory   
> for my Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge" workstation. 
> The workstation is implemented with hardware 
> that was new in the year 2000 (ASUS motherboard 
> with two USB sockets labelled "RJ-45"). 
> A stick capacity of at least 512 MB would be nice. 
> 
> Awkwardly, I don't have any experience with USB memory sticks, 
> and SOME caution evidently has to be exercised when shopping; 
> *a____Jason Shein  on this list reported on 2005-04-08  
>       finding problems with Kingston 512mb Data Traveller
> *b____Lennart Sorensen  on this list said on 2005-06-21 that 
>       ((QUOTE)) 
>         there are lots of usb-storage 
>         compatible memory sticks for usb
>         and almost all of them 
>         do work with linux just fine.  Some are
>         much better designed than others though.
>       ((/QUOTE)) 
> 
> Can anyone make a shopping recommendation?  
> Advice on brands and models would be welcome, 
> esepcially from anyone succesfully
> using a USB stick with Debian 3.1 "Sarge". 

Currently, you can get a 1 GB SanDisk drive from Best Buy, for $50 after
rebate.  I picked up one last week from Future Shop, for the same price.
 It works well with Linux.
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