[phkahler]

>> Is it only me who doesn’t like 7 bits per cell? I prefer endurance and reliability

No, it's not just you, and judging by how strongly I feel about it, it's not just the two of us.

When I find a flash drive that's been sitting for a few years and I can still read it I always feel a sense of relief. I feel like everything we've got today is too advanced to maintain the slightest glitch.

[GauntletWizard]

One of the big advantages of early flash storage was read durability, so that even when a drive was past it's useful write lifetime you could still read from it. That's not the case anymore, between wear-leveling technologies and higher bit densities.

I would love large write-once flash disks that would last for 20+ years in storage. There's a ton of archival data out there.