Hi, On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 08:58:10AM -0400, songbird wrote: > Dan Purgert wrote: > > Longterm (powered-off) backup is actually better on spinning rust; as > > SSD are somewhat more susceptible to bit-rot when powered off. > > these will always be regularly powered on even if they are > not mounted or used. the external drive i have is a normal > spinning rust drive.
It's on the order of 6 months or more of sitting unpowered on a shelf at the moment for the types of NAND memory used in SSDs, by the way. I don't think this aspect will improve as the focus is on getting higher densities of storage, e.g. right now you can buy 122TB NVMe drives (for about $12,500 USD each). Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
