[ale] archiving backups

[pbcartwright at gmail.com (Paul Cartwright)]

On 08/06/2014 03:46 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> Neither.  The nominal retention time for NAND flash is 5 years or less,
> depending on the number of cycles of reads and writes to the cells.  The
> charge stored in the gate oxide bleeds away after some time leading to
> the memory cell losing that bit of information.  This is especially
> important for the larger capacity flash devices which use MLCs to
> achieve the larger capacity.  That retention time is also factoring in
> the abilities of the on-board ECC to correct for lost bits.  For long
> term storage go with properly stored magnetic media.
magnetic media?? for home use? like what. Just askin:)
I have about 70GB of photos that I have right now on a number of USB
sticks.. the 64GB stick took 24 hours to complete the copy command..
oops, sorry, just checked, now it is 92GB of photos..

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587