These things are so cheap! I'm going to get on for a project. Are there are any issues with one vendor over another? Performance wise, they seem pretty much similar.
I have a corsair survivor purchased in 2010. It's survived multiple passes through the laundry, daily battle with keys in the pocket and heavy daily use because where I used to work had no bandwidth so I carried installers and patches around
It has also been an OS installer drive on multiple occasions. Still has good performance.