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Note that retention increases exponentially with decreasing temperature, so literally "cold storage" might actually be OK for SSDs. The retention also goes dow
by userbinator 3y ago
Note that retention increases exponentially with decreasing temperature, so literally "cold storage" might actually be OK for SSDs.
The retention also goes down with erase cycles, and is usually specified after the rated number of cycles have been reached; I expect those same SSDs to hold their data much longer than 3 months if they're still nearly new.
I still have USB drives over a decade old, but their contents are still intact. Then again, those haven't been written to much, and are SLC and older 2-bit MLC.
- Eisenstein 3y agoThose are drives that weren't plugged in for a decade? How do you know the contents are intact?
- eimrine 3y agoProbably by plugging it in and eyeballing all the contents. I have a similar experience with 1GB ancient USB drive.
- Eisenstein 3y agoDid you literally never plug the drive in for over a decade or so, not once? Then you checked the contents for corruption and it was clean?