Posted on 05/10/2015 1:06:11 PM PDT by Utilizer
SSD and thumb drives are both NAND memory, however they are VERY different grades use much different controllers. SSD’s are leagues faster in I/O and speed, reliability. Flash drives (thumb drives) use much cheaper simpler controllers that are much slower. However, both being NAND they are similar in tech.
Odd you should mention that. I just yesterday found a couple of Maxstors and a Seagate drive(s) that had the ‘doze 95b, 98SE, and RedHat 5.0 on them and they ran perfectly.
Well, the one MB had some questionable ‘lytics, I think, judging from all the AM hash it generated on powering up, but the systems functioned perfectly.
Hadn’t powered them up since somewhere around 2001 or 2002.
Think I’ll go look for those old XT and AT MBs and see what I can find...
You absolutely must backup SSDs religiously. They do not degrade, they just fail completely, like flipping a switch.
Until someone hacks your password and you lose everything. Or a bit of malware encrypts it and demands a ransom to get it back.
Does this affect those USB drives?
I don’t see any comments. Even when I disable Ghostery nothing pops up so I will have to rely upon others to view them. That and Adblock Plus do an amazing job of stopping pretty much all adware on sites. :)
Well, to be fair, even optical disks (CD/DVD/BR) degrade over time, and bitrot can be a problem on many forms of medium.
Even BIOS chips can suffer from it although they are manufactured to be quite resilient to it as I was reminded not too long ago.
In a word, yes. But the interfaces and amount of data lost will differ markedly depending upon where the data loss occurs.
“All the more reason to have your data backed up in the clloud.”
No thanks. Back up, absolutely, but no cloud.
I carry several of those plug-in memory sticks and haven’t a problem with them yet ... so what you’re saying is I have to plug them in every so often?
In summation; you should have NO critical data on a thumb drive / flashdrive for permanent retention. They were never meant for long-term storage and while reconnecting them to a power source will help long-term (yes) they are only intended to help with sneakernet data transfers not permanent storage.
Hard disks are still the best solution for long-term storage since so long as the physical disk is intact. Even if the controller electronics fails the data can still be recovered. Optical disks begin losing data after only a few years, generally from the outer edges in unless the reflective coating begins to degrade, and if a flash drive or SSD dies then you have NO chance to recover any data.
Think of thumb drives as the electronic equivalent of pencil-and-paper medium as far as “longevity” is concerned.
Ahem: “Hard disks are still the best solution for long-term storage since so long as the physical disk is intact even if the controller electronics fail the data can still be recovered.”
Sorry. Been quite ill for a time and having trouble thinking cogently for long.
Hiding comments is a bug, not a feature.
I took another look at the article. There are now 113 comments and 991 people watching.
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The big trend these past few years is for content sites to farm out comment handling to one of a small number of providers instead of rolling one's own comment system. Disqus seems to have most of that market. It's much more common to see commentable articles than it used to be.
I have a 3-part policy here.
1. For my paranoia, no cloud or other online storage;
2. For my feeling of insecurity, I back up everything on at least five devices (other laptop, thumb drives, etc.);
3. For actual security, I make a print copy of everything.
SSDs also present a new challenge in the data forensics field.
Okay - I carry some flight plans on them plus other useful aviation stuff that I can plug into any computer if needed.
I would advise you to always carry a backup, luv. Never be dependent upon only one device, right?
Have used the same one for years (okay, four) never let me down. I do have several with me in case but not needed them. Okay, well launching out of LAX to SEA ...later.
Take care, and talk later. :)
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