It's OK to boil your memory card: official

[Moogie]

By Lucy Sherriff Published Monday 2nd August 2004 13:32 GMT If you ever want to destroy a digital camera’s memory card, don’t bother putting it through the wash or hitting it with a sledgehammer as neither will guarantee destruction. According to a Digital Camera Shopper magazine investigation cited on The Beeb, five of the main memory card formats - CompactFlash, Secure Digital, xD, Memory Stick and Smartmedia - will happily hang on to your data despite being boiled, washed, dunked in cola, run over with a skateboard and worse: being given to a six-year old who was instructed to destroy the cards.

The full article can be found HERE in The Register

[PY 222]

Aiks... I didn't know that they were so durable.

But it seems like I have managed to destroy mine after trying to copy files over to my computer. The SD just went poof.

[Darkness Productions]

Weren't you informed? They're designed to handle abuse... not your standard workload

Originally posted by PY 222

But it seems like I have managed to destroy mine after trying to copy files over to my computer. The SD just went poof.

[dragongoddess]

Originally posted by Darkness Productions
Weren't you informed? They're designed to handle abuse... not your standard workload

Now thats funny.