Well, this was certainly a revelation. I was getting ready for school this morning, and couldn't find my USB drive that contained all the files for my programming class, no matter where I looked, I could not find it. After some panicked thinking, I realized, that tragically, it had been tossed into the wash with a dirty pair of pants. I searched futily through the washing machine, then left, barely making it to school in time. I got a call a short time later that my dad had indeed found it in the wash. Oh great I thought. Yet, miraculously, when I got home, and it dried, I plugged it in, and it worked perfectly, no corrupt files, completely intact, and nice and clean to boot. This is a creaky two year old model, and is by no means waterproof, and yet, somehow survived. Better the wash than the dryer.