Thread: Safe longterm storage
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Old 10-15-2014, 05:14 PM   #39
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Bad SD-card.

I have SD-cards in use that are at least 5 years old, and one USB stick will hit 8 years somewhere in 2015.
Are they full and how often are they completely rewritten?

Nowhere did I write that a typical card would fail on the first rewrite, but I bet that number is much much closer to 1 than the number of days in three generations.
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