SSD's lose data?

[Scougar]

Hmm... currently have had my SSD sitting outside my PC for a while and it's getting hotter (Was about 90F/32C in the room last night). Might need to attach it to the PC just to get some juice in it lol.

 

[Admetos]

my own hiberfil.sys is about 25gb (32gb ram, no idea why the file is smaller)

The software that writes the hiberfil.sys file uses compression, so hiberfil.sys is smaller than actual memory size.

 

[Grrrrr]

Anandtech covers this fairly well http://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention

In a nutshell - nothing to worry about.

 

[Deleted member 138126]

I think it is one of those issues where 99.999% of the population will be fine, but there'll be a couple of high-profile cases and we'll never hear the end of it. I'm betting it's going to become one more meme that never dies, like RAID 0 on SSDs or overprovisioning SSDs.

 

[Rroff]

Noticed that. I took it as "manufacturer of the most unreliable hard drives recommends buying their hard drives"

How the mighty have fallen - I have 20 year old Seagate drives that still retain data fine yet their more recent ones you need a bit of luck to manage more than 2 years.

Should I go back to HDD for backing up data? I have quite a lot stored on SSD now.....

http://www.zdnet.com/article/solid-...ut-power-for-just-a-few-days/#ftag=YHFb1d24ec




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Should always have a robust backup solution for critical data anyhow thar doesn't rely on any one platform.