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		jjav on May 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: People who won't give up floppy disks > Modern flash drives are at least an order of magnitude more reliable than floppy disks were. I don't know if that is true. I have 5.25" floppies from ca.1990 that were readable as of just a couple years ago, so about 30 years. You're saying flash drives are readable for at least 300 years? I don't know but I doubt that. (The floppies might still be readable today, I just haven't tried. The content is now archived in a zfs pool.)

bennyhill on May 11, 2024 | [–]

The flash drives give an interesting sense of reliability since the controller will keep freshening and error correcting. I havent dared to leave one unplugged for a few years with data I wanted.

IshKebab on May 11, 2024 | [–]

No I mean short term reliability (like less than a decade).

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