SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken

Re:SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extre... by washadjeffmad on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:59AM (#37085901)

Don't misunderstand. Bit rot occurs on unpowered solid state in as little as one month, guaranteed by one year. If you're thinking, "but what about my $brandModel?", that's the point of recognizing it's not long term storage media.

Bit rot doesn't mean you're going to lose all your data, just that somewhere on the chip, there will be a cell with a charge that has potentially silently altered. If that's not okay, there are long term storage practices you can follow to ensure that in however many years, your data will be identical to its originally written state.

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Re:SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extre... by rg111 on Friday August 11, 2023 @06:31AM (#37087090)

> there are long term storage practices you can follow

Can you please point me towards some resources?

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Re:SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extre... by retrac on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:46PM (#37090778)

Systems that use error correcting and robustness codes, checksums, like used on CDs, plus duplication/redundancy.

There are resilient file systems that will spread ECC data chunks across multiple devices/media where bit-flips and partial media loss can be detected and repaired, sometimes automatically. There's offline backup software that'll do similar things.

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