Law & Order Season 8 Episode 16

Factual Error: During the conversation between Rey Curtis and the police computer technician regarding recovering erased data from the victim's computer, two mistakes in terminology occur. Curtis refers to the hard drive as 'memory'; while some people may think of a drive as a memory device, someone as computer-savvy as Curtis is depicted would probably not use that term. The computer technician calls file fragments '...electronic flotsam floating on a sea of silicon'. A technician should know that a hard disk consists of a magnetic coating on a metal or glass platter; silicon is a semiconductor with some metallic properties, not a true metal, and is found in chips, not as part of the recording surfaces of a drive. Both errors likely came about from the writer confusing memory and mass storage.