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Title: Leaving unpowered SSDs in a warm room can kill your data fast Post by: HCK on May 11, 2015, 03:00:15 pm Leaving unpowered SSDs in a warm room can kill your data fast
<article> <section class="page"> <p> If you’ve got an unused computer with solid state storage inside, you might want to back up its data before too long.</p><p> 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.</p><p> The information comes from Seagate’s Alvin Cox, who as part of <a href="http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/Alvin_Cox [Compatibility Mode]_0.pdf">a presentation[/url] to the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC). Though the presentation is a couple months old (https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/03/24#ssds-evidence-storage-issues), it was recently picked up by ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com/article/solid-state-disks-lose-data-if-left-without-power-for-just-a-few-days/), Slashdot (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/05/10/0936213/enterprise-ssds-powered-off-potentially-lose-data-in-a-week) and other sites.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2920727/leaving-unpowered-ssds-in-a-warm-room-can-kill-your-data-fast.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Leaving unpowered SSDs in a warm room can kill your data fast (http://www.macworld.com/article/2920727/leaving-unpowered-ssds-in-a-warm-room-can-kill-your-data-fast.html#tk.rss_all) |