"flash is the future" people when they don't boot their computer in a year and the SSD has totally bitrotten
@chjara wait if i dont use an ssd regularly it gets fucked up?
@potzerus @chjara Ever so slowly, yes. It takes several years though.
@chjara <Nim> can... can that happen?
@TransGal4872 @potzerus yes, flash memory is basically just DRAM but data retention is measured in months instead of milliseconds
@chjara @potzerus <Nim> ...Nervous about the ssd I have all my backups on
@chjara I didn’t boot my NAS for almost a year and my hard drives lost several MB of data(which was all recoverable).

(In a zfs pool with 60TB of raw storage)

SSDs should stay charged for 5-10 years
@chjara *exposes my tits to you*

what you didn't mean that kind of flash