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They have a limited lifetime. It's a fairly long limited lifetime, sure, but unless you're reading and rewriting the data on the cards regularly, you can't rely
by camtarn 3y ago
They have a limited lifetime. It's a fairly long limited lifetime, sure, but unless you're reading and rewriting the data on the cards regularly, you can't rely on them to all still be intact a decade down the line.
Which is a shame, because I kinda love the idea of my music collection being stored in a little cube that unfolds to reveal a hundred or so micro SD cards.
- bombcar 3y agoMaybe not SD cards but something similar - Nintendo Switch cartridges are a few GB and seem quite durable.
- camtarn 3y agoHuh, those are neat! The largest ones seem to use Macronix HybridFlash technology, and: "HybridFlash provides a very stable medium to contents and OS, enabling storage as long as 20 years at 85 degrees centigrade and it also works normally from 40 degrees below zero to 85 degrees centigrade." So, not forever, but definitely longer than regular flash memory. Cool.
- flyinghamster 3y agoI'm surprised nobody has made SD cards with mask-programmed ROM or even traditional write-once PROM.
- mrguyorama 3y agoIt's called a Nintendo DS game card. I don't know if the Switch game cards are flash or mask-ROM.