Windows 10: Solid-state drives lose data if left without power for just a few days

Yep, Mystere. Been there, done that. Yet another old fart here, youngster!

 

Hi Dave, how old is what's name sometime Techo. . .I am 70, and after three stokes I just cannot remember much of anything little own my own age must of the time. . . *cry

 

Data loss in dormant SSD also depends on how hard they have been used. The more erase cycles, the less the data retention period. Usually quoted data retention lifetime is specified at the rated Program Erase cycles of the SSD (i.e. when the SSD can no longer be written to reliably), which is the worst case retention lifetime. This is how he JDEC SSD specification says it should specified.


http://setcom.ee/tanno/info/is/teave...ogies_2008.pdf

 

No idea. But you surprise me. From your Avatar you don't look a day over 60. lol.


Hi Lee,
No boast, as I am sorry to be on the way out, but I am old enough to remember when computers were things you only saw in kids comic books.
All in my profile, no secrets needed with me.

 

All the more reason to have multiple backups.

 

. . . where's that horse got me a new whip. . .*Smile

 

I wonder if this also true?? for the new NVMe HDDs ?
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And it is only another reason to have SSD reserved for OS and apps, while all other data (including those for apps on SSD) I am keeping on a HDD. And the most important of these are baked up on another, external HDD.

EDIT: I meant "backed"*Smile

 

The old new thing *Smile

 

Being a "Florida Retiree" for the last 19 years, I guess I qualify as one of the "old farts".

I have SSD's that are not powered up for a week or more and no data loss.

 

Hi there

Just powered on a laptop haven't used for over 6 months -- it's fitted with a really old corsair 120 GB SSD. Powered on just fine - no data loss whatsoever.

Note the laptop's battery was totally drained so there is no question here of even a residual bit of power being applied to the SSD.
If your device is losing data after being powered off then it's for sure 100% DEFECTIVE.

When it comes to SSD's the Bovine Scatology dept of most magazines /. articles / so called "experts" really goes into colossal mega overdrive mode. !!!

SSD's can replace conventional Spinners in almost every case without any problems whatsoever. The only two areas still lacking are for mega heavy usage (servers etc at an Enterprise level where high cost enterprise SCSI HDD's are used) and long term archive - here the limited capacity and cost of an SSD don't make it a viable option compared with other archive media.

Cheers
jimbo