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big shtick energy
May 27, 2004


NihilCredo posted:

If you wanted to store an extra copy of your really important data in a bank safe (or a hole in the ground), and you couldn't afford tape, which storage medium is most likely to retain data integrity after many years offline? SSDs? HDDs? Pen drives?

e: assuming you can find a SATA-to-USB 9.0 adapter in 2040, naturally.

I wouldn't trust anything flash-based past 5 years. Some of the better stuff is rated at 10 or 20 years retention unpowered, but even still flash isn't really intended for very long term data storage.

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