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I found a similar (though much smaller! 1GB) Kingston drive from about 2008 that had been in storage since I moved overseas. 14 years later it still had all the
by relistan 7mo ago
I found a similar (though much smaller! 1GB) Kingston drive from about 2008 that had been in storage since I moved overseas. 14 years later it still had all the data on it.
- adrian_b 7mo agoThe older and the smaller are flash drives, the more likely it is to have longer retention times. For low-density flash memories, it is possible to achieve up to 20 years of retention time. This is no longer possible for high-capacity SSDs, which store multiple bits per cell in very small cells.