> But hdd do not flip random bits to dissipation by merely sitting on the shelf unpowered, Yeah, they do. Maybe not as often as a mostly worn-out SSD, but it's

> But hdd do not flip random bits to dissipation by merely sitting on the shelf unpowered, Yeah, they do. Maybe not as often as a mostly worn-out SSD, but it's not unheard-of. > They also don't lose/flip bits from being read many times but never rewritten, Whoever told you about NAND read disturb errors must have done you a disservice by not communicating how hard they are to trigger and how easy they are to recover from. If you are letting this worry influence your purchasing decisions, you're wildly overestimating the scope of this issue. Unless you have some previously unheard-of real workload that is effectively Rowhammer for SSDs.