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lol a drive continuing to work for 10 years doesn't mean that you could write to that drive, and have it sit in a drawer for over 10 years without the data getting corrupted.
Did you read? The data corruption comes from the controller dieing, wich is exactly what i said. This isn't the disk itself, its about the (basically) SSD that stores the data about what is where on the disks and the firmware necessary to access it.
Not true the charge in the cells also leaks so it well eventually become corrupt. You can see it in running SSDs in sections that are not written to a lot. The data sits there unchanged and the SSD has to do error correction and it slows down the drive.
Yes, the controller dies slowly but the HDD disk itself remains unchanged. The corruption comes from the dieing controller wich is because the controller dieing means the plate looses the information about where what is located on the disks.
did YOU read? we were talking about HDD
I talked specifically about the disks itself, not the HDD in general, the HDD contains a SSD wich needs power to stay alive.
My point was that the plates themselves will keep the data forever unless they are exposed to strong magnetic interferences (earths own magic field isn't really a problem as its pretty stable, it's mostly bringing other magnets close or having them exposed in a solar storm wich would cause actual damage to the plate)
I don't think I've had a conversation that felt so much like Reddit on Lemmy until just now. when stored at a non-absolute zero temperature, magnetic discs are subject to thermal relaxation, even if they're kept at a steady temperature. besides the fact that you're going to pretend like we weren't specifically talking about the HDD plates, I'm not continuing this conversation because holy shit you're just trying to be frustrating