There definitely is an advantage to different media types. Each technology has their own limitations. Tape back up, SSD, USB drive, DVD and HD with spinning platers
There definitely is an advantage to different media types. Each technology has their own limitations. Tape back up, SSD, USB drive, DVD and HD with spinning platers
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
SSD would be 100% dead unless you buried it with a power source.
NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 month ago
Huh? Why? Should SSDs not be able to contain data without power?
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 month ago
That’s one of the downsides of SSDs, you lose data really fast without power. Like, after a year, your data will almost sure not be intact.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
No, they’ll start to corrupt within a year or two. They need to be powered to retain data.
After 30 years you can forget it.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sadly, no.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
There was a recent paper on this. The failure rate was higher than expected. You’ll have to search for it; I didn’t save a link.
The_v@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Leave a USB drive in a drawer for a couple of years and you can prove this one at home.
That’s why my backup drive is an old spinny hard drive.