Interesting, thanks for your honest response here. You could have easily offered to sell me your busted one.
I haven't heard any complaints about the metallic version, but honestly I haven't seen much talk about them at all. It's fitting that the version that looks so good has such fundamental flaws...that's life, eh?
Ok, I'll look into the plastic version.
Have you hand any experience with the metal private key holder?
Thanks.
I agree with scox's valuation.
To my knowledge metal trezors stopped being produced due to the various malfunctions this material caused.
The metal key holder isn't really much of a substitute. All it is is a little box to collect the first 4 letters of the 24 (i believe) word mnemonic in order to retrieve your funds in case you lose your trezor.
They are easily identified as crypto-related and in case you lose it or someone finds it, puf all your bits are gone. Yeah it's stainless, waterproof etc, but so is a piece of paper.
Laminate it if you want. In case someone found it all it would seem is a couple random words or (if you smarten up using only the first 4 letters each word) just plain out jibberish.
Put it in a box and bury it somewhere, idk what exactly you're looking for in this aspect.