Losing and breaking external memory
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I’ve never had any external memory die or get lost, but this recent survey from goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com showed that between one in five and one in six Japanese had suffered such problems with external memory.
Demographics
Between the 12th and 14 of August 2009 1,085 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.8% of the sample were male, 16.8% in their teens, 16.6% in their twenties, 21.1% in their thirties, 17.7% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 12.2% aged sixty or older.
Due to the lack of a suitable graph, I’ve instead used a picture from yoppy on flickr.
Research results
Q1: What kinds of external memory do you have or have had? (Sample size=1,085, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage USB memory 747 68.8% SD card (normal size) 688 63.4% microSD card 605 55.8% miniSD card 517 47.6% Memory Stick 241 22.2% Compact Flash 174 16.0% Memory Stick Duo 171 15.8% Smart Media 144 13.3% Microdrive 109 10.0% xD picture card 106 9.8% MMC (Multi-Media Card) 17 1.6% Memory Stick Micro 15 1.4% None of the above 37 3.4% Don’t know 52 4.8% The following two questions were asked of the 996 people who had external memory devices.
Q2: What kinds of external memory have you lost or misplaced? (Sample size=996, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage Loss rate USB memory 65 6.5% 8.7% SD card (normal size) 38 3.8% 5.5% microSD card 27 2.7% 4.5% miniSD card 26 2.6% 5.0% Smart Media 9 0.9% 6.3% Memory Stick 7 0.7% 2.9% Memory Stick Duo 5 0.5% 2.9% xD picture card 4 0.4% 3.8% Compact Flash 2 0.2% 1.1% Microdrive 1 0.1% 0.9% MMC (Multi-Media Card) 0 0.0% Memory Stick Micro 0 0.0% None of the above 843 84.6% Don’t know 19 1.9% Loss rate is the percentage of losses divided by holders.
Q3: What kinds of external memory have you had break? (Sample size=996, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage Break rate USB memory 83 8.3% 11.1% SD card (normal size) 48 4.8% 7.0% miniSD card 20 2.0% 3.9% microSD card 20 2.0% 3.3% Smart Media 17 1.7% 11.8% Compact Flash 10 1.0% 5.7% Memory Stick 7 0.7% 2.9% Microdrive 6 0.6% 5.5% xD picture card 6 0.6% 5.7% Memory Stick Duo 3 0.3% 1.8% MMC (Multi-Media Card) 0 0.0% Memory Stick Micro 0 0.0% None of the above 805 80.8% Don’t know 22 2.2% Break rate is the percentage of breakages divided by holders.
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I am totally accept this result since I have recently lost my usb pen drive.
Pen drive so small and has less weight now a days so that u don’t paid much attendance to it.So result as you can see from votes.