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  • SSDs May Not Last That Long On The Shelf

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 16 22:01:34 2025
    Before SSDs and USB sticks, some people would use external hard drives
    as a backup medium. Being faster and more capacious than optical media
    made it more convenient. But there was always the risk that, after
    sitting on the shelf for months or years, when it came time to power
    the drive up, it would no longer work.

    Now it seems something similar may afflict SSDs <https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups>.
    Of course this sample is too small to draw any definite conclusions
    from. But as always, it reinforces the idea that more backups is
    better than fewer.

    That is, so long as you label them properly and don’t get mixed up
    mistaking an older, obsolete backup for a newer, more up-to-date one
    ...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Apr 16 21:22:31 2025
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Now it seems something similar may afflict SSDs ><https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups>.
    Of course this sample is too small to draw any definite conclusions
    from. But as always, it reinforces the idea that more backups is
    better than fewer.

    This is a well-known effect.... basically the charge leaks out of those
    little cells. The fewer states per cell, the longer they last, but on
    the whole you want to keep power on them if you have long-term data storage, just like Seagate says in the datasheet.
    --scott

    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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