however USB's are much more fragile, and don't tend to live as long as pieces of paper stored correctly.
Hell yeah, i don't trust any usb stick to store anything important especially privkeys. Some of my neighbors got new corrupted USBs (those were bought at electronics retail stores and online stores). The reason(I searched the internet), it was forced to increase the storage capacity. Even though it doesn't show any damage at first, a few times of use it will show thaat all saved files are corrupted (unrecoverable).