I shopped around mostly the west side of Tallahassee. A local computer repair store gave me a great deal on a handful of older USB sticks all of which kept data but none of which booted. The local Walmart had the lowest proces on 4gb sticks so I bought one of each color to easily tell them apart. The PNY only came in black. All of the sandisk cruzers 4gb boot just fine. The PNY kept data but did not boot.

I have not tested other manufactures or other distributions other than Linuxcoin.

The Sandisk 4gb's booted on all 3 versions of Linuxcoin that I have on file.