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heffe-2001 I go a step further than you do on protecting data. I have my entire library on the 2GB flash drive and nothing in the reader's internal RAM. I have a 2d 2GB flashdrive that I use for firmware updates only (3 machines in the family). So I have to remove my library flash drive (and place it on the desk where it is safe, or even in another room) in order to insert the firmware flash drive. At $11 for an extra flash drive, it's worth it.
Also there has been a few times when the reader was acting up, so I just remove the library flash drive and hook it up to my computer at the much faster USB 2.0 (the reader is USB 1) and run chkdsk (with the repair switch) in Windows, or FSCK (repair) in Linux. It usually finds file system errors and fixes them. When I reinsert the flash drive into the reader, all the problems are gone.
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