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Here's the recent one that has us all with a worried frown: https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/03/24#ssds-evidence-storage-issues https://blog.korelogic.co

Here's the recent one that has us all with a worried frown: https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/03/24#ssds-evidence-storage-issues https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/03/24#ssds-evidence-sto... "... A stored SSD, without power, can start to lose data in as little as a single week on the shelf. ..." The key, it seems, is temperature change.

userbinator 11y ago
That did worry me a little but I also found this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9524609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9524609 More reassuringly, "one week" would seem to be the worst case scenario of an SSD used near its endurance limit and then stored in a hot environment. Nevertheless, the more reasonable number of 1 year is still extremely short even on human timescales; if SSDs need to be powered up to "refresh" their data, that doesn't really sound like non-volatile storage to me...