Unpowered for how long? 6+ months?
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Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
What kind of storage do they use? Because SSDs left unpowered will lose data.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I would think most consumer drives will be OK with that, but it varies, and the race to make things ever cheaper has only increased that. AFAIK, the more data they try to pack into a cell (SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC), the more likely they are to be affected by unpowered data loss.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yup.
SSDs are not good for long term storage. “Old” disk drives are still king for long term.