Posted on 05/25/2015 8:25:11 PM PDT by dayglored
If you’re in a panic because the Internet told you that your shiny new SSD may lose data in “just a few days” when stored in a hot room, take a chill pill—it’s apparently all a huge misunderstanding, according to the man who wrote the original presentation all the fear is based on.
In a conversation with Kent Smith of Seagate and Alvin Cox, the Seagate engineer who wrote the presentation that set the Internet abuzz, PCWorld was told we’re all just reading it wrong.
“People have misunderstood the data that they’re looking at,” Smith said.
Cox agreed saying there’s no reason to fret.
“I wouldn’t worry about (losing data),” Cox told PCWorld. “This all pertains to end of life. As a consumer, an SSD product or even a flash product is never going to get to the point where it’s temperature-dependent on retaining the data.”
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The original presentation ... was intended to help data center and enterprise customers understand what could happen to an SSD—but only after it had reached the end of its useful life span and then stored at abnormal temperatures. It’s not intended to be applied to an SSD in the prime of its life in either an enterprise or a consumer product.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
Yeah, that’s fine I agree with laptops. I make backups to my critical data somewhere else with my laptop.
Good news - the other way was flat out spooky...
OK. I’ll bite- what’s an SSD?
“Solid-state Drive” or “Solid-state Disk” - it’s a disk made of memory chips instead of a spinning platter.
Thanks.
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