Testing the resilience of a Lexar 16GB USB Firefly Jumpdrive
After careful consideration, the Lexar 16GB JumpDrive Firefly was selected as the official IT memory stick. It’s red colour makes it easy to differentiate between it and the white corporate USB flash drives, and it’s small size made it easy to grab a fistful in a hurry. This is built upon by its capacity (16GB), and flashing red end when in use.
Naturally no self-respecting IT manager would put a product into production without a thorough soak test, so I ran a sample Lexar 16GB JumpDrive Firefly first through a wash with a hefty spin cycle, and then the tumble drier. This simulated the following conditions:
wet
forced water entrance
excessive gravitic force from the spin cycle
heat
shock from impact inside the drum of the tumble drier
water evaporation from the components
The result was satisfactory (to give it Blofeld’s highest accolade): the memory stick immediately mounted when inserted into a computer, and has past full disk integrity tests.