I heard that data in a HDD lasts for around 5 years.So, I would guess that I have to manually copy and paste all the files every couple of years in order to refresh the files, no?
>>106780414You heard wrong. I just got data off a hard drive that hadn't been powered on for 20 years a few days ago. You do have to power on SSDs every couple of months, though. They'll brick if you don't.
>>106780414>>106780624also, you dont need to manually refresh files. just get the drive going to keep the data alive
>>106780624>You do have to power on SSDs every couple of months, though. They'll brick if you don't.Are you trolling? That makes no sense. Maybe data loss, but why would the device brick?
>>106780624i have to remind myself not to take this board too seriously as it becomes overwhelmed with idiot teenagers that like to pretend they know something
HDDs have a different problem than SSDs. It's bitrot from dust particles that ECC can't compensate for and often these go unnoticed and the only practical way to heavily reduce them is via RAID 5 which isn't possible in say a laptop.SSDs on the otherhand are allergic to high storage temperatures. So as long as you place them in a refrigerator when you power them off, you'll be fine for a few decades.That's just how technology is in general. Modern technology will be amazing at one thing, in this case reading and writing to hundreds of thousands read/writer operations per second (or millions like RAM), but it all comes at a cost (ie can't be powered off at room temperature safely).
>>106780624unless you have multiple copies to verify chances are some comic rays has flipped some bits and you'll at the very least have some mild corruption
>>106781348drives already have this built in, but in a more efficient way than just copying every bit
>>106780905Flash cells work by trapping electric charges inside logic gates, but the charges run out over time. So they need to be powered on. The refrigerator thing works because there's less atomic movement at lower temperatures.If this happens in the microcontrollers firmware code, then that's that.
>>106781425>It beez leetle atomz n shieeet It's obviously spirits living inside the chips tard
>>106780905I've had a couple of sata ssds brink from leaving them unpowered for about a year. Was using them in old XP or Win 7 builds so they weren't getting used all the time. ssds are fucking worthless for using on machines than don't get get used for long periods.
