14 DAY TRIAL // Have you ever feared for the security of the information stored on your SD cards? No, I'm not talking about the fear of being accessed by someone else, I'm talking about the cases when you go outside and carry the SD memory card in your pocket. I know it is NOT going to get wet in there but what if you have to hand it over to one of your friends so he can take a look at what you have saved on the flash memory?
Don't you like this example? Let's just say you really really have to take it out from a protective environment and let it out in the open to suffer all the consequences of the bad weather outside (rain, extreme cold, lots of dust, if you're somewhere in the desert training for the sand skiing Olympic tryouts, snow and any other weather conditions that are dangerous to your beloved SD). It doesn't sound like a happy time for the card isn't it?
You can overcome your fear now because there is something on the market that assures us it won't get soaked in water, freeze until it cracks open or anything similar when exposed to bad weather. The SD card that actually protects itself from water and anything nasty you can imagine has been released by GRIGO, a company that concentrates on the memory and flash products business.
If you don't know it yet - and I'm pretty sure you don't because I also wasn't aware of it - they are the ones that have started back in January 2005 the system PC business called RAON and this is why you see this brand on their rugged SD Flash non-volatile memory cards.
If you want one of these tough cards you will have to choose between the 512 MB, 1 GB and 2 GB capacities, that come at a price not yet disclosed by their developer. Whatever you may decide, I'm sure you will find them worthy of the money you spend on them if you happen to drop your SD in the water tank when feeding the fish.
What would you do hanging around with your flash memory near that thing? Don't know yet but get yourself one of these cards just in case it's going to happen :).