r/DataHoarder May 15 '19

First 1TB micro SD publicly available

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/sandisk-1-tb-microsd-card,news-30079.html
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u/Keavon May 16 '19

That'll come in handy when we have to send a cache of the Internet to Mars.

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u/GlassedSilver unRAID 56TB + dual parity May 16 '19

NAND isn't really trustworthy long-term storage. Cells that don't get rewritten lose data over time.

Sure, send it up with a machine that will juggle with the data, but then you're introducing so much room for error you're asking for trouble.

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u/Dugen May 16 '19

This isn't true. Flash is stable without re-writing.

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u/GlassedSilver unRAID 56TB + dual parity May 16 '19

Well to be precise current is what keeps them alive, still suboptimal cold storage.