[relistan]

I found a similar (though much smaller! 1GB) Kingston drive from about 2008 that had been in storage since I moved overseas. 14 years later it still had all the data on it.

[adrian_b]

The older and the smaller are flash drives, the more likely it is to have longer retention times.

For low-density flash memories, it is possible to achieve up to 20 years of retention time.

This is no longer possible for high-capacity SSDs, which store multiple bits per cell in very small cells.