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Can confirm. SD cards can fall in 5-7 years due to cell voltage drift, and unplugged SSDs can have bitrot that overwhelms onboard ECC in less than a year. HDDs
by mceachen 5y ago
Can confirm. SD cards can fall in 5-7 years due to cell voltage drift, and unplugged SSDs can have bitrot that overwhelms onboard ECC in less than a year.
HDDs don't fare substantially better, though: bitrot can happen in under a decade due to magnetic entropy/polarization decay.
Of course, your mileage may vary, and you may be lucky and get stuff off your 30 year old SCSI drive...