Chris Alemany🇺🇦
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This jives with my memory of the issue. Is write cycles the only or biggest issue? I am thinking about using these flash drives as essentially "write once and archive" so I am hoping that means they should be pretty indefinite in terms of age.?
Scott VE3QBZ@scott@mastodon.clitheroe.ca
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca @alberniweather@socialbc.ca Nooooo, it's much worse lol.
SSD's work essentially by "trapping" tiny bits of charge in a semiconducting structure - each bit of data is literally a bunch of electrons trapped in a semiconductor.
The problem is when they are left unpowered, those electrons can start to escape their holding cells, not unlike helium escaping the balloon it is contained in.
How long? Could be six months, could be years. But it's not a suitable archival media as a result.
