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Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time"

From	Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, uk.comp.homebuilt
Subject	Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time"
Date	2014-06-20 20:28 +0100
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:52:40 +0100
Mike Tomlinson <mike@jasper.org.uk> wrote:

> This is actually quite an important question.
> 
> If data are written to an SSD and that SSD is then unplugged, what is
> the guaranteed retention time without corruption, of that data?
> 
> Hard disks are well known to suffer from "bit-rot", but do we have any
> data on whether it's a problem on SSDs?
> 
Just in case it is you can generate PAR files for anything important, so
minor bit rot is less likely to stop you recovering your files.

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"Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2014-06-17 12:04 -0500
  Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 03:39 +1000
    Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2014-06-17 16:09 -0400
      Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" Mark F <mark53916@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 07:47 -0400
        Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" Mike Tomlinson <mike@jasper.org.uk> - 2014-06-20 10:52 +0100
          Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" Mark F <mark53916@gmail.com> - 2014-06-20 08:24 -0400
            Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2014-06-20 13:31 +0100
              Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" GB <NOTsomeone@microsoft.com> - 2014-06-20 14:29 +0100
          Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2014-06-20 20:28 +0100
      Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-06-20 06:14 +1000
  Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2014-06-17 18:30 -0500
    Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2014-06-18 01:51 +0000
  Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-06-18 13:21 -0300
    Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2014-06-19 11:40 -0400
      Re: "Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-06-19 19:27 -0300

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