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Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 74ec21fb-3f22-4f6e-b7ef-ef1d2445207b X-Archives-Hash: ef597665622ee5b45874d21b9b1320f3 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-20, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >> Another thing to consider: don’t put it into the safe for a year without >> powering it up. As was explained in a previous mail, QLC uses sixteen >> different levels of charge inside one single flash cell. The chance of a bit >> flip increases the longer the SSD is powerless and charge slowly (very >> slowly) dissipates. It’s hard to find exact numbers, and it’s more of a >> statistical question. Could be a research topic for a slow Sunday. ;-) >> Also, don’t you live in a hot area? >> >> I don’t know if an SSD does a re-charge regularly by itself, or whether you >> need to actually read out the cells for the controller to notice any issues. >> This may be another good research topic. > According to some sources I've read, (at least some) flash controllers > do automatic refresh cycles in the background. I've no clue how long a > complete device refresh cycle would take for any particular device, or > how long between refresh cycles you would want to tolerate. > > -- > Grant Well, I may swap it out with a better brand later.  I tend to update those backups every month or so.  They don't change a lot.  Should have stuck with Samsung or whatever, even tho it costs twice as much.  I could use the Crusial just to move data from one system to another still.  Should be good for that. Dale :-)  :-)