2026-08-29 15:54 UTC
@gabrielesvelto@mas.to
By sheer coincidence, I just wrote a minor lecture about flash a couple of days on VCFED:
https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/cf-card-vs-hdd.1258645/#post-1515080
The important bit is:
FLASH IS SIMPLY NOT A SUITABLE ARCHIVE MEDIUM!
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@overunderlay@bsd.network 2026-08-29 16:19
@bsdphk@fosstodon.org @gabrielesvelto@mas.to a couple decades ago I was a big fan of DVD-RAM as archival media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-RAM Still would be totally viable if updated to modern densities.
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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to 2026-08-29 16:34
@bsdphk@fosstodon.org there's one thing I'm curious about: do modern controllers periodically scrub data at rest or not? Because if they wait until the user reads the data some long-lived files that are seldomly accessed may deteriorate before they ever get touched.