Flash memory is not considered a good long term storage medium for archival purposes. The data slowly dissipates, a new card can hold the data around 5 to 10 years, theoretically. A cheap card even less. But the cells will wear down with every write so the charge in the cells will dissipate quicker if they have experienced lots of write cycles. So yeah I would power flash memory at least once a year to be safe.
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No play, only download
I have stacks of 1-1.5 tb sd cards in a holder on my steam deck case because I can never delete a game but I don’t have time to play them either.
I’m collecting my games too, so they’re available when i do get around to playing X game
Remember to power them once in a while since the stored charge slowly leaks.
What? I have never heard this before. I have loads of cards strewn about
Flash memory is not considered a good long term storage medium for archival purposes. The data slowly dissipates, a new card can hold the data around 5 to 10 years, theoretically. A cheap card even less. But the cells will wear down with every write so the charge in the cells will dissipate quicker if they have experienced lots of write cycles. So yeah I would power flash memory at least once a year to be safe.
Balls.
How often is once in a while cause fuuuuuuck…
Like once every few years at least. More often if they are cheap or if the cells have been rewritten a lot.
I have them in a leak-proof holder.
checkmate 😄