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Live From CES: Hardcore Flash Drive Takes (Almost) a Dismembering and Keeps on Remembering

Discover the power of extra-durable flash memory drives, showcased even when frozen in ice! Uncover their resilience and specs.

Written byStephen Cass
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I love a neat booth demo, and Corsair have managed to pull one off by freezing one of their extra-durable flash memory drives inside a huge block of ice. The water- and shock-resistant drives come in various sizes up to 64 GB and sell for about $50 to $150, depending on the capacity. While it was still embedded in the ice, Corsair's folks hooked it up to a computer to prove that a being turned into a flashsicle wasn't enough to stop the memory from chugging away.

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