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Don't misunderstand. Bit rot occurs on unpowered solid state in as little as one month, guaranteed by one year. If you're thinking, "but what about my $brandMod
by washadjeffmad 3y ago
Don't misunderstand. Bit rot occurs on unpowered solid state in as little as one month, guaranteed by one year. If you're thinking, "but what about my $brandModel?", that's the point of recognizing it's not long term storage media.
Bit rot doesn't mean you're going to lose all your data, just that somewhere on the chip, there will be a cell with a charge that has potentially silently altered. If that's not okay, there are long term storage practices you can follow to ensure that in however many years, your data will be identical to its originally written state.
- rg111 3y ago> there are long term storage practices you can follow Can you please point me towards some resources?
- retrac 3y agoSystems that use error correcting and robustness codes, checksums, like used on CDs, plus duplication/redundancy. There are resilient file systems that will spread ECC data chunks across multiple devices/media where bit-flips and partial media loss can be detected and repaired, sometimes automatically. There's offline backup software that'll do similar things.