Paying cheaper something is obviously one of the riskier moves out there, especially when there's a more expensive one on the market. From what I've read here and other places the speed is pretty good and the thing is pretty useful. At this point it's only the durability that bothers me. Exodus, how long have you had that second stick?

And I see that you have some tutorials on how to install XP on your USB in your signature, boogshd. I've found the most interesting way that you haven't got there is by actually editing the settings of a XP disk/iso image and repacking it so that it'll install directly to your USB. ^^