I just concluded a decade long experiment. I had a USB flash drive in a jar buried in my back yard since 2015. I dug it up, plugged it in and it suffered no data loss after 11 years idle underground.
It's a usless experiment but everyone needs hobbies.
@Aaron_DeVries
While doing environmental testing on a helicopter payload, I learned that NVMe drives (and perhaps all SSDs) can write data at high ambient temperatures >40 C, but the data is less permanent than if you write data at normal ambient temperatures.
So on hot days we had to hurry and copy our 4TB drives after the flight because the data had a half-life of a dozen hours or so.
That phenomenon is already documented, but I don't think it's widely known.
"@Aaron_DeVries
Mientras realizaba pruebas ambientales en la carga útil de un helicóptero, descubrí que las unidades NVMe (y tal vez todos los SSD) pueden escribir datos a temperaturas ambiente elevadas (>40 °C), pero que dichos datos resultan menos permanentes que si se escribieran a temperaturas ambiente normales.
Por ello, en los días calurosos teníamos que darnos prisa en copiar el contenido de nuestras unidades de 4 TB tras el vuelo, ya que los datos tenían una vida media de unas doce horas, aproximadamente.
Este fenómeno ya está documentado, aunque no creo que sea ampliamente conocido."
Aaron DeVries
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