On 01/09/17 08:54, Dave Plater wrote:
There are other archival backup solutions. I often have seen lawyers simply put data on a USB drive and put that in a safe. I'm not sure that is a great solution, but it certainly is one that is used frequently. Just for interest, eeprom spec taken from a PIC data sheet I just happened to have open: Data retention without refresh is conservatively estimated to be greater
On 31/08/2017 17:50, Greg Freemyer wrote: than 40 years. So I should imagine that the same would apply to usb drives.
No. You may well be right, but eeproms are physically much larger than modern chips (the transistors etc, that is). Charge leakage is now a major problem due to the shrinkage of the die. Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org