What is bit rot?
All storage has issues with bit rot. There haven’t been any studies to show that SSD is disproportionately affected.
ridethisbike@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Plopp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
When bits of data on a storage medium goes bad for seemingly no reason. If you’ve ever had a library of files and all of a sudden there’s a file that won’t open even though you haven’t touched it.
blurg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In 2016, HDDs were more reliable (MTBF).
In 2022, for the first 5 years, SSDs are looking more reliable. With more of a constant failure rate (1%/yr), than the increasing failure rate of HDDs after 5 years.
(Caveat: not just bit rot, but general failure data.)
linearchaos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s a caveat there. We’ve had some new tech in SSDs come out very recently, new enough not to be in those charts will still have to see.