I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro. Encouraged by Apple's example of including a bootable flash drive with the new MacBook Air, I'd like to install a minimum Snow Leopard system on a USB flash drive for the purposes of running Disk Utility and Disk Warrior... This should work fine on my MacBook Pro, correct?
But which flash drive should I get? To keep costs low, I'm thinking of a 16 GB drive. The two I'm considering are:
1.
Lexar Echo SE 16GB
2.
Patriot Xporter XT Boost 16GB
The Patriot is considerably cheaper ($21 after rebates) and has a lifetime warranty. Speeds appear to be similar.
Can anyone weigh in or recommend something else? USB flash drives seem much cheaper than SD cards...