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Comment by bell-cot

It doesn't matter if the the special FRAM memory cells in this gadget are good for 200+ years. All modern electrical stuff is hellishly complex, from a materials engineering PoV, and there are many other parts of this flash drive that will likely fail in <2 centuries. Plus, why would you believe that (working) systems able to read USB drives will be available in 200+ years?

SO - unless the data you're storing is worth a major effort by future computer historians, just find an old daisy-wheel printer, and save your 8K to archival quality paper. That'll be good for a thousand years or so.

parent bell-cot 2 years ago

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