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Comment by fsckboy

4 days ago

>unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

so it's as if the data... rusts, a little bit at a time

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dsego  4 days ago

Usually described as bit rot.

  • fsckboy  12 hours ago

    was referencing the main competition to ssd's, often decried as spinning rust

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