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The article mentions lifetime/longevity/data retention, although not an 8GB drive that had been written to multiple times... I recently purchased a 2GB Sandisk
by techrat 5y ago
The article mentions lifetime/longevity/data retention, although not an 8GB drive that had been written to multiple times... I recently purchased a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer Titanium (nostalgia) thumbdrive off eBay, new in package.
Since drives at the time typically had preinstalled software like U3 or some app to encrypt your files, I wondered if a drive as old as this one would still be readable, never having had power since it was packaged up.
It was.
https://i.imgur.com/0dNo5ni.png https://i.imgur.com/0dNo5ni.png
14 years.
It outlived nearly every CDR and DVDR I had.
- userbinator 5y agoRetention specs are usually for "end of life" conditions, i.e. after the blocks have been cycled the specified number according to endurance. If they were only written once, and the device kept at room temperature, I would not be surprised if it lasted a century or more --- the retention is an exponential function of both temperature and cycles, if I remember correctly from the last time I researched this stuff in detail.