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Re:Western Digital unveiled its SanDisk 1TB SDXC card prototype by wmf on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @11:10PM (#12545122)
SSDs are only rated for one year of retention with power off; I would expect SD cards to be worse. http://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-...

In theory flash can be use for archival but it would have to be refreshed periodically.

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Re:Western Digital unveiled its SanDisk 1TB SDXC card prototype by SmellyGeekBoy on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:15AM (#12546305)
FWIW, I found 4 old SD cards (16MB - 256MB, various manufacturers) in my attic last week that definitely haven't been used in 5 or more years, and the photos on them all copied over to my PC just fine. I'm guessing the much lower density of the smaller capacity cards helps a lot in this regard.
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Re:Western Digital unveiled its SanDisk 1TB SDXC card prototype by digi_owl on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:33AM (#12545888)
Yeiks. I wonder how many will be burned by that...
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