US Post Office irradiation effect on Memory Sticks?:

[smk]

Compact Flash has warned against using U.S. Post service for their media a couple weeks ago:

http://www.pdastreet.com/articles/2002/1/2002-1-8-Post-Office-Anti.html

I don't recall seeing anything on Memory Sticks, though and I'm about to sell a couple older sticks.

Is US mail, plain-jane envelope safe?

 

[Ron Parr]

Is US mail, plain-jane envelope safe?

Probably not. Memory sticks use the same flash memory technology as compact flash, MMC, smarfflash, etc., so it will have the same vulnerabilities.

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