[crazygringo]

Do you have a current source for that?

I've turned on plenty of cell phones that hadn't been charged or powered on for a couple of years and everything worked normally. Same with thumb drives I've picked up after years.

I mean, anything can fail after three months. Your statement doesn't really add anything without stating the failure rates. For all I know the failure rate could be less than that of physical hard drives.

[gruez]

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/9248/2_575px.PNG

from https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data...

[crazygringo]

Thanks, now I understand where this is coming from.

And the linked article makes clear it's not a worry at all. Key part:

> All in all, there is absolutely zero reason to worry about SSD data retention in typical client environment. Remember that the figures presented here are for a drive that has already passed its endurance rating, so for new drives the data retention is considerably higher, typically over ten years for MLC NAND based SSDs...

Average users virtually never pass the endurance rating, so @teddyh's claim seems awfully sensationalistic.

[teddyh]

> seems awfully sensationalistic.

I originally got the “three months” figure from the Dell document, which I got from here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24229864#24232844