Usually what ruins your flash drive and the data on it is your mistake from washing it and drying it in your jeans pocket to leaving it in your car on a hot day or dropping it in the toilet. If you have ever done one of these things and ruined your flash drive the guys over at Popular Mechanics have taken a trio of flash drives and put them through a torture test regime that includes cooking them in a 200 degree toaster oven, dunking them in water for 60 seconds and doing a full wash and dry in the pocket of a pair of jeans. The Wallet Flash 2GB drive made it through all tests unscathed, while the Lexar 1GB JumpDrive Mercury looked bad it still worked and the final drive was the Corsair 8GB Flash Voyager which did well until the cap came off in the wash meaning the end for the Flash voyager.

Special thanks to Everythingusb.com for this story !