USB memory advice

[Swan55]

Our PC based music library is approx 220gb with many more cd's waiting to be loaded.
We would like to copy them to a usb memory stick for plugging into our Ultra for playback.

We've tried a few test runs with small sized memory (16gb) sticks and are happy with the results.

Before we order a larger memory stick, does anybody have any advice regarding make / size / casing material / heat / anything else etc.
Here in the UK, 512gb usb stick cost up to about £35, which is not an awful lot but too much to waste if there's anything obvious we're unaware of.

Members opinions would be appreciated. thx

 

[Saponetto]

Currently using a 256Gb stick plugged on Ultra's USB socket, enough to take several Telarc audio samples and some goodies, and so far no troubles at all.
If you plan to load a lot of rips into that memory, of course better avoid sticks and get a 512/1TB M2 with external case.
Works just better in terms of thermal assessment.

 

[narcoleptic-haze]

I use a Samsung T5 500GB SSD drive. It's great.

On a side note though, sometimes if I want to skip ahead on a longer song before it's buffered, there's a lengthy delay in the song actually playing at that position. I'm using hi-res FLAC files so it's probably just that the file sizes are causing a buffering bottleneck because they're large. I wonder if using a faster drive like a Samsung T7 would minimise this .. hmm