I have washed and dried flash drives before, usually my son's
when he left it in his pants and I didn't find it. I've also done
the same with DS game cartridges. They've always survived
the wash, but perhaps that is because we have a front loader,
so they don't spend much time being completely immersed.
What I have found is that the cheaper flimsier flash drives often
will not survive repeated plugging in and removal from the
computer, and internal connections between the USB tip and
the rest of the drive will break from too much flexing.
On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:03 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
wrote:
From: b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: Speaking of flash drives
Flash drives break when you need them most, yet survive the most
brutal
abuse.
I found Bob's 8GB flash drive in the washing machine last week--after
the laundry was washed at the heavy duty setting. I opened it and hung
it up to dry with everything else, waited a day for it to dry. It
works
fine, no lost data. Lucky that I usually hang clothes outdoors or in
our
greenhouse to dry. The flash drive might not survive an hour in the
dryer, but you never know.
Betty
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