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.
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NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 months agoSSD would be 100% dead unless you buried it with a power source.
Huh? Why? Should SSDs not be able to contain data without power?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sadly, no.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months 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 2 months 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.
rikudou@lemmings.world 2 months 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.