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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by DanBC on Thursday March 12, 2015 @07:16PM (#9194651)
Isn't MicroSD what you want? Even when hard discs were tiny they were bigger than any floppies. Zip drives were possibly the closest, but they were only used because they were portable, not because they were any good.
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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by majormajor on Thursday March 12, 2015 @08:08PM (#9194891)
Zip drives could also go bad and screw up your data if the mechanism failed. Stupid click of death... a completely separate storage layer can't always save you.
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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by digi_owl on Thursday March 12, 2015 @08:45PM (#9195043)
Well the problem there was that, iirc, they had the RW mechanics alongside the platter. Thus they got bumped around during transport.

Without that the damage would have been piecemeal as sectors went bad, rather than watching a chip go poof and lose access to everything.

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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by digi_owl on Thursday March 12, 2015 @07:39PM (#9194770)
SDs still have a level of electronics between the storage IC and the rest of the system. There may have been a solid state format like what i'm thinking about, but i think it is long defunct.
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