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I've had glitching problems with long term cold storage with flash SSDs. They just start losing a bit here or a bit there when they're off for a long time. I ha

I've had glitching problems with long term cold storage with flash SSDs. They just start losing a bit here or a bit there when they're off for a long time. I have been results with HDD. Is there any reason to believe that these versions will be stable enough?

timschmidt 1y ago
> They just start losing a bit here or a bit there when they're off for a long time. Flash cells are capacitors. Like all capacitors they leak slowly over time. For long term storage on an SSD you should probably keep it powered and regularly scrub the filesystem like ZFS does.
londons_explore 1y ago
> when they're off for a long time Ssd design isn't suited to this. In fact, I believe future ssds will need to stay powered up 24x7 or lose the stored data. (Maybe allowing brief power downs of say up to 24h)