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Leaving unpowered SSDs in a warm room can kill your data fast

  • sabi ng PC World

    If you’ve got an unused computer with solid state storage inside, you might want to back up its data before too long.

    A new research presentation shows that solid state drives can lose data over time if they aren’t powered on, especially in warmer environments. A powered-off drive in 104 degrees Fahrenheit may start seeing data loss after a couple of weeks.

    The information comes from Seagate’s Alvin Cox, who as part of a presentation to the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC). Though the presentation is a couple months old, it was recently picked up by ZDNet, Slashdot and other sites.

    Cox’s presentation shows basic performance requirements for both consumer and enterprise SSDs. It notes that consumer SSDs, when powered-off in 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celcius), should retain data for about a year. Bumping up the temperature by 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celcius) reduces the time of data retention by half. Store your SSD in 131 degree heat, and it might start losing data after a couple of days.


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    Di pala bagay ang SSD dito sa Pilipinas lalo na sa mga walang airconditioning kaya dapat laging nakabukas.

    -- edited by jsnepo on May 13 2015, 06:51 PM
  • Di ako naniniwala dyan.
  • Mukhang reputable naman ang source.

    The information comes from Seagate’s Alvin Cox, who as part of a presentation to the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC).
  • A new research presentation shows that solid state drives can lose data over time if they aren’t powered on, especially in warmer environments. A powered-off drive in 104 degrees Fahrenheit may start seeing data loss after a couple of weeks.


    Di pala bagay ang SSD dito sa Pilipinas lalo na sa mga walang airconditioning


    104 F = 40 C

    The ambient temperature in my room is 34 to 37 C. No air-conditioning unit

    I live in Pasig
  • no worries, as long as you use your pc regularly.

    and a year of data retention in a 30c environment in an unpowered state is long enough.

    half a year of data retention in a 35c environment is also long enough, my room\'s ambient temperature hovers from 31c-34c during summer, no airconditioning.

    i doubt anyone stores ssds in a 55c environment.

    -- edited by supergrover on May 13 2015, 07:34 PM
  • The Truth About SSD Data Retention from AT: <click here for link>.
  • nakow. ung ssd ko nakatago na sa box. di ko na nagagamit. kabebenta ko lang kasi ng pc ko. baka next year ko pa mabuo ule pc ko. anak ng tokneneng


  • Deadmau5 Send Message View User Items on May 14, 2015 10:34 AM - User is Online
    nakow. ung ssd ko nakatago na sa box. di ko na nagagamit. kabebenta ko lang kasi ng pc ko. baka next year ko pa mabuo ule pc ko. anak ng tokneneng


    sata ba yan? baka pwede bilihan ng enclosure na tig 250 para magamit mo as external hdd
  • summer pa naman ngayon ingat lang ^_^
  • @Deadmau5

    nakow. ung ssd ko nakatago na sa box. di ko na nagagamit. kabebenta ko lang kasi ng pc ko. baka next year ko pa mabuo ule pc ko. anak ng tokneneng


    Walang problema diyan. Read the AT article I linked to in my post above.

    \"All in all, there is absolutely zero reason to worry about SSD data retention in typical client environment. Remember that the figures presented here are for a drive that has already passed its endurance rating, so for new drives the data retention is considerably higher, typically over ten years for MLC NAND based SSDs.
  • @helly

    read and write po ba to ? kasi di ako gaano nag wr-write ng maraming files sa ssd ko. lahat ng write ko nasa hdd ko. bale puro read lang ung ssd ko sa games like watch dogs. haha

    nakakakaba kasi ung title thread ni ts xD