USB Flash Drive showing up as LOCAL DISK

Then always buy USB drives 16 GB and smaller and you’ll have no problem flipping the bit.

I wonder how long will they produce such drives? And why 16, why not 32, then? (FAT32 drive size limit)

Oh I don’t think it will be that long before USB devices are phased out. SanDisk already has wireless drives out. USB drives are going the way of floppy and CD and DVD drives.

If USB flash drives are being phased out, what external boot options will we have? Wireless?

The SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive is what do you have in mind? That is clearly not the present yet as it is overpriced for capacity and maxes out at 64 GB.

How about USB type-C for the future?