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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-06 23:40:   
      
   > On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 15:42:50 -0500, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> Flash could last forever... if we could anneal it to repair defects in   
   >> the cells. But we're not there yet, and might never make it there.   
   >   
   > Certainly the vendors of flash storage have no financial incentive to take   
   > us there.   
      
   And I don't think there is need for that. In the last 20 years I had   
   only few cases where SD cards or SSDs stopped working properly. But I   
   never lost data, since this was always backup up or stored redundant on   
   multiple media or locations. So I don't have any use for flash storage   
   which lasts "forever".   
      
   I also never experienced any failure of internal flash storage in   
   smartphones or my smartwatch - and the smartwatch (Samsung Gear S3) is   
   now about 7 years in constant use and I use smartphones usually for at   
   least 5 years.   
      
   On the other hand: for an old "pocket" computer in my collection, a   
   Sharp PC-E500S [1] I got an FRAM module - this keep data "forever" (more   
   than 10 years of data retention time and 10^10 to 10^15 write cycles),   
   but this kind of storage is way too expensive for more than just a few   
   megabytes of memory.   
      
      
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