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Originally Posted by thinkpadx
Just found out that I managed to wash my jeans with a usb pen in it.
I thought this is it that memory is ruined. To my surprise it still works.
How on earth that is possible after being in the washing machine for
an hour I'm not sure of. Usb pen memories are very sturdy built.
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A USB pen is plastic housing around Nand flash memory. There's nothing about that that going through the wash will break.
All USB drives aren't created equal, and I can imagine cases where going through the wash
would kill one, simply because the housing was flimsy. (I've seen things like that in SD cards from no-name manufacturers, where the housing for the card came apart.)
But for the most part, they're pretty resilient.
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Dennis
Who doesn't automatically buy the cheapest one, to
avoid potential manufacturing quality issues.