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Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues, reminds us of the importance of refreshing backups (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

no storage drive on the planet last more than two to three years

I'll tell that to the laptop HDD I pulled out of a laptop last month that hasn't turned on since 2018 and copied a large portion of the data so my mother can have old family photos she forgot to transfer.

I'm positive there are issues somewhere on it, since radiation is a thing and the HDD case isn't 6ft of lead. I just didn't encounter any with the 50-60gb I transferred.

On a long enough timescale, sure. But not a couple years for HDDs at least.

[–] hime0321@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

Op is not saying that 100% of the data is lost after that time frame. That’s enough time that you could lose critical areas of sectors in such a way that data becomes unreadable. Yes hdd’s can sit for years without losing much data. However the firmware and os’s are able to handle some lost bits so it doesn’t seem like you lost data.