Flash longevity, was Re: Kerrville, TX warehouse pics

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> ? So...where can we get older long-life-expectancy flash drives?? I don't care if they're less capacious; I need to sneakernet small groups of files around occasionally, not swap copies of my entire movie collection. C: Now you could say the industry is just giving the consumer what they want. Much of the data (a bloody huge amount) being shifted around is eminently replaceable. The latest version of Spiderman can hardly be considered mission critical. And yes floppies back in the day were highly reliable and bloody amazing (I personally don't get as much use as others, but I have seen some that maintain their data for 20+ years, then crap out), back when no one would ever need more then 640k of ram. ?It stinks being in the minority I know. But those with the inclination can offer their own solutions to such problems. It's called collaboration. Just look at what some people do in isolation. Until then use cds (preferably old stock?). ?There was also that optical glass element that Hitachi IIRC was developing. Maybe you all can lean on them a bit. ?Why doesn't someone take apart some older and newer flash drives and see exactly what is the problem. ?Remember the Sony Mavica digicams, the earliest used a 3.5" floppy drive LOL. The newer a full sized cd iirc. Despite people's attempts to get mondo huge bucks for them, they're still had pretty reasonably. I suggest you get a gaggle of the cd version Dave. You can photograph everything like me and store it reliably on cd LOL LOL LOL.