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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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SSD for long term (2-4 years) storage ? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I plan to put some 1TB SSDs into long term (2-4 years) storage. I was told that the memory in SSDs lose charge over time so this might result in me returning to completely lost data

Is there a "safe" time period where I can assume the SSDs still have the data on them?
Do I need to read the whole 1TB worth of data off each SSD or would plugging them in every time period above be enough to have the data be reliably stored on them?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

please ask this every day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But you don't understand! My question is actually unique! I would know that, because none of the 0 other posts I read mention my incredibly specific and niche use case that I developed because I don't understand the fundamentals!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

2 years is long term?

Wow now I feel old, at my age 2 years feels like what 6 months used to be lol.