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SSD would be 100% dead unless you buried it with a power source.
Huh? Why? Should SSDs not be able to contain data without power?
No, they’ll start to corrupt within a year or two. They need to be powered to retain data.
After 30 years you can forget it.
That’s one of the downsides of SSDs, you lose data really fast without power. Like, after a year, your data will almost sure not be intact.
There was a recent paper on this. The failure rate was higher than expected. You’ll have to search for it; I didn’t save a link.
Leave a USB drive in a drawer for a couple of years and you can prove this one at home.
That’s why my backup drive is an old spinny hard drive.
Sadly, no.
NostraDavid@programming.dev 8 months ago
Huh? Why? Should SSDs not be able to contain data without power?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 months ago
No, they’ll start to corrupt within a year or two. They need to be powered to retain data.
After 30 years you can forget it.
rikudou@lemmings.world 8 months ago
That’s one of the downsides of SSDs, you lose data really fast without power. Like, after a year, your data will almost sure not be intact.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
There was a recent paper on this. The failure rate was higher than expected. You’ll have to search for it; I didn’t save a link.
The_v@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Leave a USB drive in a drawer for a couple of years and you can prove this one at home.
That’s why my backup drive is an old spinny hard drive.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sadly, no.