Sunday, August 1, 2004
5 Storage Cards Meet the Sadistic Reviewers
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "HARDWARE" @ 02:00 PM
Ever hear of Digital Camera Shopper magazine? Well it looks like they were bored one wet rainy afternoon and had a few storage cards to play with. Instead of doing the standard tests on the CompactFlash, Secure Digital, xD, Memory Stick and Smartmedia cards, they decided to destroy them in interesting ways:.
"They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy. Perhaps surprisingly, all the cards survived these six tests. Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests - being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree. Even then, data experts Ontrack Data Recovery were able to retrieve photos from the xD and Smartmedia cards."
So now you know what storage card type to get if you plan to nail your storage card to a tree and smash it to smithereens. :lol: On a more serious point, it is good to see that all of the cards were very study and resilient, surviving the 'normal' abuse given to them. Now if only Pocket PCs were that resilient…… :wink:
"They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy. Perhaps surprisingly, all the cards survived these six tests. Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests - being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree. Even then, data experts Ontrack Data Recovery were able to retrieve photos from the xD and Smartmedia cards."
So now you know what storage card type to get if you plan to nail your storage card to a tree and smash it to smithereens. :lol: On a more serious point, it is good to see that all of the cards were very study and resilient, surviving the 'normal' abuse given to them. Now if only Pocket PCs were that resilient…… :wink:
