Originally Posted by
unmesh
"Read-mostly" is a use case where you're going to write to it very few times (maybe even just once) but read from it lots of times. For example, I have a stick with Windows 10 install files on it. So write performance is more or less immaterial but read performance is important.
Regarding price, I just set a threshold price at camelcamelcamel.com and buy one from Amazon when that threshold is met. The unfortunate side effect is that I have way too many of these

Yeah, I've ended up with a fair number over the years. I'm prone to getting a new one when I find a good deal on something better than what I have.