@schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 month agoThis USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 yearswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down112cross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1226arrow-down1external-linkThis USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 yearswww.tomshardware.com@schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square53fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
minus-square@qjkxbmwvzlink22•1 month agoI would be surprised if you couldn’t get 8KB for 200 years out of standard flash simply by extreme duplication — 8GB/8KB means a million copies on one (very small by today’s standards!) drive. Or is the failure mechanism something other than bitrot?
I would be surprised if you couldn’t get 8KB for 200 years out of standard flash simply by extreme duplication — 8GB/8KB means a million copies on one (very small by today’s standards!) drive.
Or is the failure mechanism something other than bitrot?