[cctalk] Re: Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man

Regarding the recent GreaseWeazle story in Maryland: What do you guys think of the "archive-ness" of current solid state devices? M.2, NVMe, SSD, or even USB thumb sticks? A friend proposed that when one of those starts to go bad, any kind of partial data recovery becomes difficult - but any more difficult than the old traditional magnetic media? I noticed IBM still sells high speed large capacity tape backup. Large capacity as in gigabytes if not terabytes (think maybe a 17TB tape was offered). But for high speed, I think they are still "SATA-speeds" (300-600 MB/s)? Over the past decade or so, I've had a few SSD go bad. In fact just a few months ago, I had a main boot drive of a laptop (using an SSD) start to develop bad sectors and gradually got worse and worse performance - I mirrored it to a new SSD while the system was still bootable and that worked out. But I've never had to really do "data recovery" on any solid state device. I do recall once in awhile, "just pulling" a USB thumb drive corrupted the data - this was more in the early days of USB (maybe it's still an issue, just modern faster machines are quicker at closing files and flushing caches, so it's less probable of an issue - but I see kids at school yanking thumb drives all the time these days). So I was just curious on other peoples thoughts on that. Maybe we just haven't had enough time to really tell yet. I know the first generation CD/DVD disc are known to "go bad" - the material itself somehow degrades and becomes unreadable by modern drives. I'm not sure if that's still the case with newer or more modern CD/DVD disc (not just that they're newer, but are they a more durable material or casing?) -Steve On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 3:33 PM rar via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: