See http://www.compactflash.org/pr/020107b.pdf for a report about damage to
flash memory sent by mail.
I don't think it is durable for a recording medium, but I never anticipated
anyone using it for storage. Use it as an acquisition medium in field
recording, and transfer recordings to storage media (e.g. optical discs such
as CD) as soon as possible.
Richard Ranft
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: oryoki2000
> Sent: 03 March 2002 00:05
> To:
> Subject: [Nature Recordists] future recording: solid state memory
>
>
>
> I appreciate that this forum is about nature recording, not new
> electronics. I have just one more tidbit about future recording
> devices.
>
> Walter K. comments from time to time that he is suspicious about the
> durability of compact flash memory as a recording medium. I've been
> looking for information on that subject, and recently found a report
> of a photojournalist who deliberately left two Compact Flash modules
> in his pants pockets and sent them through the wash. After a full
> wash and dry cycle their labels had come off, but both modules still
> worked and still retained the images they had before the washing.
> They continue to work months later. For more, see URL
> http://www.quiknet.com/~frcn/Clean.html
>
> I'm still looking for data regarding flash memory's vulnerability to
> static discharge.
>
> oryoki
>
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