using "safely remove hardware" is great and safe, i do it, but it's not magic that prevents data loss forever, and i'd still want hardware that isn't only dependent on safely removing it.
My feeling is that if you want extra USB storage, a 1 TB external drive, powered by the USB port, does not cost very much more than two 64 GB thumb drives.
this is true, but it's not what i'm looking for. i have no use for the other 950 gb. i'm only looking to store these files somewhere else and use the other thumbdrives.
more directly, does it matter if this data is stored on two ultra fits or not? the newer model of it is cheaper, and i found two different brand normal lengths i can store it on, as you told me about yours. so if it doesn't matter, i'm going for the cheapest option here.