I don't find that at all impressive - I would have raised an eyebrow if they'd retrieved nothing though.breezer said:they found the guts of the memory stick, took it to a specialist company and they were able to view said picture of stick.
The fact remains, people carry memory sticks around, and some people lose them. If you're foolish enough to treat that single stick as a backup device, then you risk coming a cropper.
The other fact is that they crash. Not often, but they can, and do.
Memory sticks: good for some things, but not good for everything.